Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charlotte Bronte

I like rudeness a great deal better than flattery.

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.

Charles Lederer

Flattery'll get you anywhere.

Carolyn Wells

Invitation is the sincerest flattery.

Douglas Hurd

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

Macy Gray

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

Hannah More

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

Janet Jackson

I'm flattered that other artists consider me a role model.

I'm flattered people would like us to come.

Tom Bradley

I'm flattered by the offers that I've had. It's really nice that people think that highly of you.

Chuck Close

I have no intention of flattering people. I like wrinkles and crow's feet and flaws, and somebody should know, if I'm going to photograph them, that's going to show up, you know?

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.

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

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.

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

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.

It was flattering to get them in Brevard.

Nick Lachey

It?s like, 'Surely this is going to be the last one? This will be the last one.' And they just keep putting them out. But I guess in some strange, twisted way it?s a form of flattery in that people are interested in what?s going on with us. But it is frustrating.

It's flattering to see people show up for our home games from the community.

It's flattering to be considered. I'm looking forward to it.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.