Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Caleb Colton

Some indeed there are who profess to despise all flattery, but even these are nevertheless to be flattered, by being told that they do despise it.

Charles Caleb Colton

Imitation is the sincerest of flattery.

Charles Caleb Colton

Imitation is the highest form of flattery.

Alan Bradley

To be most effective, flattery is always best applied with a trowel.

Broadway is the actor's Mt. Everest - but with more flattering frocks.

Charles Lederer

Flattery'll get you anywhere.

Carolyn Wells

Invitation is the sincerest flattery.

Charlotte Bronte

I like rudeness a great deal better than flattery.

Benjamin Franklin

Praise to the undeserving is severe satire.

Benjamin Franklin

A flatterer never seems absurd: The flatter'd always takes his word.

Benjamin Franklin

Approve not of him who commends all you say.

Charles Caleb Colton

Immitation is the sincerest form of flattery.

Twiggy

Yes, black is slimming, but it's not always youthful. The right tone of red, however, is flattering on all women.

John Sevier

Should I be so happy as to merit your patronage, I flatter myself neither you nor my country, could have any occasion to regret.

Self-love is the greatest flatterer in the world.

David Cone

Clemens, Seaver, Gibson, Maddux - I just don't see myself in that category. I'm flattered that maybe it's debatable at this point.

Cal Ripken, Jr.

I'm always flattered when someone thinks of me as a potential commissioner of baseball.

Isobelle Carmody

I do see, in some younger writers, elements and things that I have used - and I am very touched and flattered because I am part of a tapestry that is being absorbed by authors.

On many people, orange is not the most flattering color.

Neither will I put myself forward as others may do,Neither, if you wish to flatter, will I flatter you;I will look at you grimly, and so you will know I am true.

Neither will I put myself forward as others may do, Neither, if you wish to flatter, will I flatter you; I will look at you grimly, and so you will know I am true.

Dorothy Hamill

I am thankful for this flattering and great honor.

William Shakespeare

But when I tell him he hates flatterers, He says he does, being then most flattered

Chrissy Teigen

I have a little half-Asian butt, and the more I work out, the more I try to get it bigger, it's just going to get flatter and harder.

I am flattered that she is interested in joining us. But, of course, I am only one of 32.

Carroll O'Connor

Sheer flattery got me into the theater. Flattery always works with me, particularly the flattery of women.

Edmund Burke

Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.

Allison Tolman

I've met a lot of really friendly people who are incredibly happy for me, which is really flattering and humbling.

Dale Carnegie

Flattery is counterfeit, and like counterfeit money, it will eventually get you into trouble if you pass it to someone else.

Christopher Paolini

Of course you like him; everyone enjoys flattery.

Annika Sorenstam

I find it flattering to be compared to Tige

Alexander Pope

By flatterers besieged And so obliging that he ne'er obliged.

Jason Bay

There are still a lot of things that need to be worked out, ... but it's flattering to have that offer.