Best Flattering Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“The true business of the philosopher, though not flattering to his vanity, is merely to ascertain, arrange and condense the facts.”

Philosophy Facts Science Philosopher Vanity Flattering Arrange Ascertain Condense

Author:John Leslie

“Outbreaks of unvarnished truths in the backyard of our true self can be very precious and inspiring, even though we might inconsistently be tempted to give in to the exhilarating perfume of fables and fairy tales or to flattering praise and fiction. ("The day the mirror was talking back")”

Inspiring Fiction Praise True Self Perfume Tempted Fairy Tales Flattering Fables Exhilarating Inconsistent Truths Precious Outbreaks Give In Backyard Unvarnished

Author:Erik Pevernagie

“Nice words and nice appearance doesn't conclude that someone is nice, i believe that the nicer you look, the more deceptive you appear.”

“I can understand backward patriarchal reasoning coming from a male, but from a woman - and of all people, a leader of women? It says something profound about leadership - and, if anything - what it says about followers is not very flattering at all.”

Women Leadership Leader Profound Woman Reasoning Followers Flattering Male Patriarchal Backward

Book:Demonspawn

Source: Demonspawn

“In Paris, where raillery is so quick to throw emotion out the window, silence, in a roomful of clever people after a story, is the most flattering of all marks of success”

Success Silence Storytelling Paris Cynicism Flattering

Author:Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly

“The fame stuff, the kind words from websites and things, are very flattering and lovely, but I just wanna act.”

Kind Stuff Fame Lovely Website Flattering Kind Words

Author:Matthew Lewis

“I'd love to be in the '70s. I'd love to have a big, long wig parted down the middle with flat-ironed hair and bell-bottoms. They're actually very flattering for my figure. The wider the leg, the better for a person with a booty.”

Persons Long Bigs Middle Figures Hair Bottom Legs Flats Bells Flattering Wigs Booty

Author:Sarah Paulson

“Before 'Twilight,' occasionally I would get the 'Hey are you that girl from that movie?' but no one knew my first and last name. The fans of the saga are amazing, and it's very flattering.”

Firsts Lasts Girl Names Fans Hey Twilight Flattering That Girl Saga Firsts And Lasts

Author:Nikki Reed

“A lot of people say about 'Gossip Girl,' 'Well, how do you feel about gossip?' Well, who really likes gossip? No one likes to be talked about if it's not flattering or a compliment.”

People Ifs Feels Wells Girl Likes Gossip Compliment Flattering Gossip Girl

Author:Jessica Szohr

“To be told you've won a MacArthur fellowship is very flattering and gratifying personally.”

Fellowship Flattering Macarthur

Author:David Simon

“Finding tricks to create flattering body shape is the key to style.”

Body Style Keys Shapes Findings Tricks Flattering Body Shapes

Author:Stacy London

“I think that people with differing points of view find common ground in 'Modern Family' is very flattering, and I'm appreciative of that.”

People Thinking Views Common Modern Point Of View Flattering Common Ground Appreciative Modern Family

Author:Steven Levitan

“It's always flattering when somebody you really respect and like wants you to be involved in their project - let alone writes a part with your voice in mind.”

Want Writing Mind Voice Involved Projects Flattering

Author:Chris Messina

“It's flattering to make a picture which becomes a classic within 10 years; it's not so flattering, however, when people get the impression it's the only picture you've ever made.”

People Years Made Impression Classic Flattering

Author:Robert Hamer

“My problem is that I always find jeans that are either high-waisted or low-rise, but nothing in between, like they used to be in the eighties and early nineties. That's actually the most flattering cut.”

Problem Used Cutting Lows Used To Be Jeans Eighty Flattering

Author:Georgia May Jagger

“You see how this House of Commons has begun to verify all the ill prophecies that were made of it - low, vulgar, meddling with everything, assuming universal competency, and flattering every base passion - and sneering at everything noble refined and truly national. The direct tyranny will come on by and by, after it shall have gratified the multitude with the spoil and ruin of the old institutions of the land.”

“The swan murmurs sweet strains with a flattering tongue, itself the singer of its own dirge.”

Sweet Tongue Singers Strain Flattering Swans

Author:Martial

“Poetry and consumption are the most flattering of diseases.”

Poetry Disease Consumption Flattering

Book:The Poetical Works of William Shenstone: With Life, Critical Dissertation and Explanatory Notes

Source: The Poetical Works of William Shenstone: With Life, Critical Dissertation and Explanatory Notes

“Sure. Some of the reviews have been very flattering, but the series is not finished yet. The end needs to be as strong as the beginning.”

Needs Has Beens Ends Strong Series Finished Reviews Flattering

Author:George R. R. Martin

“For love is a flattering mischief, that hath denied aged and wise men a foresight of those evils that too often prove to be the children of that blind father; a passion, that carries us to commit errors with as much ease as whirlwinds move feathers, and begets in us an unwearied industry to the attainment of what we desire.”

Source: The Pilgrim's Progress & the Lives of Donne and Herbert

“Nothing is more flattering for a writer than when someone knows your work.”

Knows Flattering

Author:Hilton Als

“The one thing I've come to figure out is this equation where the more uncomfortable I am, the better I'm going to look. I'm like, "This one really hurts. I must look awesome!" The corsets are uncomfortable, but they are so flattering. No, my waist will never be that small.”

Looks Hurt One Thing Figures Uncomfortable Equations Flattering Corsets

Author:Kristin Bauer van Straten

“In truth, politeness is artificial good humor, it covers the natural want of it, and ends by rendering habitual a substitute nearly equivalent to the real virtue. It is the practice of sacrificing to those whom we meet in society, all the little inconveniences and preferences which will gratify them, and deprive us of nothing worth a moment's consideration; it is the giving a pleasing and flattering turn to our expressions, which will conciliate others, and make them pleased with us as well as themselves. How cheap a price for the good will of another!”

“The first time I remember women reacting to me was when we were filming Hud in Texas. Women were literally trying to climb through the transoms at the motel where I stayed. At first, it's flattering to the ego. At first. Then you realize that they're mixing me up with the roles I play - characters created by writers who have nothing to do with who I am.”

Trying Firsts Play Character Remember Realizing Roles Ego First Time Who I Am Climbs Texas Flattering Mixing Reacting Motels

Author:Paul Newman

“I like architectural shapes. You can't put any shape on any body, except on the runway. In reality, it has to look and feel flattering.”

Feels Looks Body Reality Shapes Flattering Runway

Author:Bibhu Mohapatra

“No, let the monarch's bags and others hold The flattering, mighty, nay, al-mighty gold.”

Gold Bags Als Flattering Monarchs

Author:John Wolcot

“I always seem to be chosen to do very flattering things like the beard comb over or go to the bathroom with the door open on Sex and the City or be the guy people meow at in Super Troopers. It's great for self esteem.”

People Self Seems Guy Sex Cities Doors Self Esteem Chosen Esteem Bathroom Beard Flattering Combs Sex And The City

Author:Jim Gaffigan

“I don't think she [Marilyn Monroe] saw herself as victimized and a sex object. She knew how to contend with it. I'm sure she was no fool about it. On the one hand, it was very flattering and great; on the other hand, it was probably awful and could be very lascivious and very terrible. But I think a lot of women just wanted to be like her. And that's still true today.”

Thinking Stills Hands Today Wanted Sex Saws Objects Fool Terrible Awful Flattering Like Her

Author:Gail Levin

“Men sometimes think they hate flattery, but they hate only the manner of flattering.”

Thinking Men Sometimes Hate Flattery Flattering

Author:Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“Satan was a blunderer ... who made a stupendous failure. If he had succeeded, we should all have been worshipping him, and his portrait would have been more flattering.”

Ifs Should Has Beens Made Satan Portraits Flattering

Book:Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)

“Say less than the other fellow and listen more than you talk; for when a man's listening he isn't telling on himself and he's flattering the fellow who is.”

Men Listening Fellows Flattering

Book:Letters from A Self-Made Merchant to His Son (EasyRead Super Large 20pt Edition)

Source: Letters from A Self-Made Merchant to His Son (EasyRead Super Large 20pt Edition)

“Do not give alms promiscuously. Select the unworthy poor and make them happy. To give to the deserving is a duty, but to help the improvident, drinking class is clear generosity, so that the donor has a right to be warmed by a selfish pride and count on a most flattering obituary.”

Giving Helping Poor Class Clear Duty Pride Drinking Charity Selfish Generosity Select Unworthy Deserving Flattering Donors Alms Obituary

Book:The America of George Ade, 1866-1944: Fables, Short Stories, Essays

Source: The America of George Ade, 1866-1944: Fables, Short Stories, Essays

“Look, we live in a celebrity culture and sometimes you get caught in the wave and the buzz and a lot of it's flattering but, you know, one of the things that I try to remind people of is, is that I was in politics as a state senator operating in obscurity for many years. Before that I was a community organizer working in low income communities in Chicago and nobody knew my name then. And so, having involved myself in public service for a pretty long time without getting too much attention, hopefully I can keep some of the attention that I'm getting now in perspective.”

“This laudable quality is commonly known by the name of Manners and Good-breeding, and consists in a Fashionable Habit, acquir'd by Precept and Example, of flattering the Pride and Selfishness of others, and concealing our own with Judgment and Dexterity.”

Names Quality Known Example Pride Habit Judgment Manners Selfishness Fashionable Breeding Flattering Concealing Good Breeding Dexterity

Book:The Fable of the Bees

Source: The Fable of the Bees

“Now it is necessary to court her, and win her, and put on this clean dressing gown, and cut my various nails, and drink something that will kill the millions of germs in my mouth, and say something flattering, and be witty and bonny, and hale and kinky, all just to ease this wrinkle in the groin. It seems a high price.”

Seems Winning Millions Cutting Drink Mouths Court Clean Witty Various Ease Nails Dressings Wrinkles Flattering Germs Gowns Kinky Hale High Prices

Author:Donald Barthelme

“But to demand that a work be “relatable” expresses a different expectation: that the work itself be somehow accommodating to, or reflective of, the experience of the reader or viewer. The reader or viewer remains passive in the face of the book or movie or play: she expects the work to be done for her. If the concept of identification suggested that an individual experiences a work as a mirror in which he might recognize himself, the notion of relatability implies that the work in question serves like a selfie: a flattering confirmation of an individual's solipsism.”

“The less we show our love to a woman, Or please her less, and neglect our duty, The more we trap and ruin her surely, In the flattering toils of philandery.”

Shows Duty Please Ruins Neglect Traps Toil Our Love Flattering

Author:Alexander Pushkin

“In 302, the Roman emperor Diocletian commanded "there should be cheapness," declaring, "Unprincipled greed appears wherever our armies ... march. ... Our law shall fix a measure and a limit to this greed." The predictable result of Diocletian's food price controls were black markets, hunger and food confiscation by his soldiers. Despite the disastrous history of price controls, politicians never manage to resist tampering with prices -- that's not a flattering observation of their learning abilities.”

Should Law Black Ability Results Politician Limits Army Greed Soldier Hunger Despite Manage Observation March Predictable Emperor Flattering Declaring Cheapness Roman Emperor

Author:Walter E. Williams

“A lot has been said about single mothers. Most of it has been less than flattering.”

Has Beens Said Mother Flattering Single Mother

Author:Gayle Tzemach Lemmon

“It's absolutely fun to walk around and have people respect you. When Michael Jackson did Thriller, I was in the park one day, and a girl came up to me and said, "Man, the only people they talk about around here are Michael Jackson and you." It was pretty flattering to be considered in the same light as the king of pop in my area.”

People Men Said Light Girl Fun Walks Kings One Day Areas Pops Parks Thrillers Flattering

Author:Rick Ross

“A man sufficiently gifted with humor is in small danger of succumbing to flattering delusions about himself, because he cannot help perceiving what a pompous ass he would become if he did.”

Ifs Men Helping Danger Ass Delusion Gifted Flattering Pompous Succumbing

Book:ON AGRESSION

Source: ON AGRESSION

“As to memory, it is known that this frail faculty naturally lets drop the facts which are less flattering to our self-love - when it does not retain them carefully as subjects not to be approached, marshy spots with a warning flag over them.”

Doe Self Facts Memories Known Subjects Self Love Spots Faculty Warning Flags Flattering Frail

Book:Impressions of Theophrastus Such: Top Novelist Focus

Source: Impressions of Theophrastus Such: Top Novelist Focus

“Deception, flattering, lying, deluding, talking behind the back, putting up a false front, living in borrowed splendor, wearing a mask, hiding behind convention, playing a role for others and for oneself -- in short, a continuous fluttering around the solitary flame of vanity -- is so much the rule and the law among men that there is almost nothing which is less comprehensible than how an honest and pure drive for truth could have arisen among them.”

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (Illustrated): Friedrich Nietzsche

“Cautious age suspects the flattering form, and only credits what experience tells.”

Age Form Credit Suspects Cautious Flattering

Book:The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: With an Essay on His Life and Genius /c by Arthur Murphy, Esq

Source: The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: With an Essay on His Life and Genius /c by Arthur Murphy, Esq

“I love ripped jeans! They are flattering. I'm very petite, so I think they make my butt look lovely.”

Thinking Looks Lovely Jeans Flattering Ripped Petite Ripped Jeans

Author:Ariana Grande

“Next, to make them expert in the usefullest points of grammar; and withal to season them and win them early to the love of virtue and true labour, ere any flattering seducement or vain principle seize them wandering, some easy and delightful book of education would be read to them; whereof the Greeks have store, as Cebes, Plutarch, and other Socratic discourses.”

Source: The Prose Works of John Milton ...: With a Preface, Preliminary Remarks, and Notes

“An audience is pleasant if you have it, it is flattering and flattering is agreeable always, but if you have an audience the being an audience is their business, they are the audience you are the writer, let each attend to their own business.”

Ifs Audience Pleasant Flattering Own Business

Book:How Writing Is Written

Source: How Writing Is Written

“These flattering mirrors reflect imperfectly what is within; the countenance is often a gay deceiver. What defects of mind lie hidden under its beauty! What fair exteriors conceal base souls!”

Mind Soul Lying Gay Fairs Mirrors Defects Flattering Countenance Exterior Deceiver Physiognomy

Author:Pierre Corneille

“Please not thyself the flattering crowd to hear; 'Tis fulsome stuff, to please thy itching ear. Survey thy soul, not what thou does appear, But what thou art.”

Doe Art Soul Stuff Please Ears Crowds Popularity Thyself Surveys Flattering Itching

Author:Aulus Persius Flaccus

“The mere reality of life would be inconceivably poor without the charm of fancy, which brings in its bosom, no doubt, as many vain fears as idle hopes, but lends much oftener to the illusions it calls up a gay flattering hue than one which inspires terror.”

Reality Would Be Poor Doubt Inspire Gay Illusion Mere Terror Vain Reality Of Life Fancy Charm No Doubt Idle Bosoms Flattering Hue

Author:Wilhelm von Humboldt

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