Being Quote by Martin Parr

We sometimes imagine we hate flattery, but we only hate the way we are flattered.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Flattery is so necessary to us that we flatter one another just to be flattered in return.

— Marjorie Bowen

I am very flattered. I have also become a verb as in "I have cumberbatched the UK audience" apparently. Who knows, by the end…

— Benedict Cumberbatch

To be flattered is grateful, even when we know that our praises are not believed by those who pronounce them; for they prove, at…

— Samuel Johnson

Flattery pleases very generally. In the first place, the flatterer may think what he says to be true; but, in the second place, whether…

— Samuel Johnson

Flattery has to overcome my mistrust, and it does.

— Mason Cooley

Naturally, there are times when every woman likes to be flattered... to feel she is the most important thing in someone's world. Only a…

— Marilyn Monroe

Flattery must be pretty thick before anybody objects to it…

— William Feather

Nothing is so great an instance of ill-manners as flattery.

— Jonathan Swift

Words really flattering are not those which we prepare but those which escape us unthinkingly.

— Ninon de L'Enclos

“Flattery is so necessary to all of us that we flatter one another to be flattered in return”

— Marjorie Bowen

After I confess, you shoot me down by saying 'I'm flattered but…'

— Anonymous