Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Blake

He who would do good to another must do it in Minute Particulars: General Good is the plea of the scoundrel, hypocrite and flatterer

He flatters me, I'll tell you. It's as if the neighbors don't have problems with his proposal.

Dolly Parton

I was so flattered and honored that they liked me so much. It really worked out to be a wonderful friendship,

Danielle Panabaker

I think the important part is picking clothes that are flattering to your figure, and obviously I want a big say in what I was going to wear, 'cause it's still me that's out there.

David Bowie

I guess it's flattering that everyone believed I was those characters, but it also is dehumanizing.

While it's flattering that they should use it, it's well-established.

Mathematicians may flatter themselves that they possess new ideas which mere human language is as yet unable to express.

Uma Thurman

I'm so flattered and touched by your comments.

We can't be too flattered by the result.

Frank Lloyd Wright

Imitation is always insult--not flattery.

Holly Black

Flattery will get you everywhere," Sam says, "Except, apparently, off a roof.

Joseph Addison

The most skillful flattery is to let a person talk on, and be a listener.

Jorge Luis Borges

The flattery of posterity is not worth much more than contemporary flattery, which is worth nothing.

Jonathan Swift

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

As flattering as it is to be the only label on that map, we're not alone,

Adlai E. Stevenson

Flattery is all right if you don't inhale

Flattery - If you want to get to the top, prepare to kiss a lot of the bottom.

It was flattering to get them in Brevard.

Isaac Asimov

Flattery is useful when dealing with youngsters.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Praise is flattery, artful, hidden, delicate, which gratifies differently him who praises and him who is praised. The one takes it as the reward of merit, the other bestows it to show his impartiality and knowledge.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

If we did not flatter ourselves, the flattery of others could never harm us.

Jean Paul

It is easy to flatter; it is harder to praise.

Jean de La Fontaine

Every flatterer lives at the expense of him who listens to him.

Friedrich Nietzsche

One can also be undignified and flattering toward a virtue.

Tell me a private school that won?t take somebody outside their parish. Jealousy is the greatest form of flattery and that?s about it. Maybe this is being paranoid, but we?re a small town, and what irritates me is if (Mayo and Walker) went to a bigger, private school, we?d be seeing headlines about how great this is.

We're very flattered by all this attention. By going into Lord & Taylor, we've really gone full circle,

Douglas Hurd

Indeed it is a characteristic of most human beings, whether politicians or not, to flatter themselves on their knowledge of history.

For I know not to give flattering titles; in so doing my maker would soon take me away.

Macy Gray

I'm really flattered by all of you who voted for me.

I've heard a great many flattering things about Roosevelt, but never that he was notable for his skill in administration.

Gertrude Stein

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.

Hannah More

No adulation; 'tis the death of virtue; Who flatters, is of all mankind the lowest Save he who courts the flattery.

I'm unbelievably honored and flattered that something like this would take place. This type of thing is rarely done while the person is still alive. It happens to maybe 1 percent of academics.