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He did not flatter me. It was I who found his appreciation flattering.
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Poetry and consumption are the most flattering of diseases.
— William Shenstone
At first, I was grateful to be the object of such intense desire. Yet what's flattering in the first year can be suffocating in the eighth.
— Padma Lakshmi
It's flattering to be compared in any way to Tiger Woods, because he's the best player in the world.
— Ivan Lendl
The fit of jeans can be worlds apart from brand to brand. If you can find the right fit, skinny jeans can be very flattering.
— Tim Gunn
How flattering," I grumbled. "My soul glows.
— Rick Riordan
A lot has been said about single mothers. Most of it has been less than flattering.
— Gayle Tzemach Lemmon
I'd never noticed him anywhere near the pool, but he knew my swimwear cold, which was flattering and alarming at the same time.
— Gillian Flynn
Gallantry of mind consists in saying flattering things in an agreeable manner.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
A flattering painter, who made it his care To draw men as they ought to be, not as they are.
— Oliver Goldsmith
Lay not that flattering unction to your soul, That not your trespass but my madness speaks.
— William Shakespeare
Bridget Jones is part of literary lore now and actually to be a part of it is enormously flattering.
— Colin Firth
Being asked for one's advice is always flattering
— Valerie Fitzgerald
Vivienne Westwood makes such beautifully structured clothes that are especially flattering if you are curvy.
— Antonia Thomas
To think of myself as a role model is extremely flattering, but I could never accept that, because Im just learning like everybody else.
— PJ Harvey
When people call me a sex icon, it's flattering but it never goes to my head because I never felt sexy as a teenager.
— Eva Longoria
I find it flattering to be compared to Tige
— Annika Sorenstam
What really flatters a man is that you think him worth flattering.
— George Bernard Shaw
Thinking man's crumpet? Well, it's more flattering than being a lobotomised man's crumpet, I suppose ...
— Gillian Anderson
Men sometimes think they hate flattery, but they hate only the manner of flattering.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
I think that people with differing points of view find common ground in 'Modern Family' is very flattering, and I'm appreciative of that.
— Steven Levitan
The only way to success in American public life lies in flattering and kowtowing to the mob
— H.L. Mencken
One can also be undignified and flattering toward a virtue.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
The only people that recognize me are the hardcore fans, and I always find that really flattering. I think it is super cool.
— Cassidy Freeman
I still get recognized. It's flattering, but it can be uncomfortable. Maybe because it only seems to happen when I'm looking and feeling crappy.
— Mara Wilson
O blessed, blessed night! I am afeard, Being in night, all this is but a dream, Too flattering-sweet to be substantial
— William Shakespeare
Having a biopic made is very flattering.
— Cilla Black
The way he looks at me, all serious and attentive, was more flattering than any compliment I'd ever had
— Hester Browne
The simplest and least flattering explanation was always the right one, I'd learned over the years. But
— Claire Messud
The true business of the philosopher, though not flattering to his vanity, is merely to ascertain, arrange and condense the facts.
— John Leslie
Yeah, and I recently had my first Elvis moment. A gang of young girls was jumping all over me. It was kinda scary. And totally flattering.
— Channing Tatum
It's very flattering when you look into the crowd and people have made an effort and dressed in your style.
— Florence Welch
Only God is able to humble us without humiliating us and to exalt us without flattering us.
— Ravi Zacharias
I love ripped jeans! They are flattering. I'm very petite, so I think they make my butt look lovely.
— Ariana Grande
Each community has a curious and distorted image of itself which is always flattering.
— Carl Eckart
I like everything from Miu Miu. Dolce & Gabbana cocktail dresses are a party essential; they're so flattering.
— Harley Viera-Newton
To an American writer, I should think it must be a flattering distinction to escape the admiration of the newspapers.
— Frances Trollope
I've met a lot of really friendly people who are incredibly happy for me, which is really flattering and humbling.
— Allison Tolman
Being referred to as a hunk or a heartthrob makes me nervous, but it's flattering. But I'm more interested in being an actor than a heartthrob.
— Orlando Bloom
As flattering friends mislead, quarreling foes can often correct
— Augustine Of Hippo
I shall be perfectly content to spend time with Mr Darcy and enjoy his manner of flattering my ego, for I must confess he does it very well.
— P.O. Dixon
Often times I'm confronted with a quote that I don't remember saying. So, on one hand it's very flattering, it is just so surreal.
— Will Ferrell
I find the whole concept of women screaming at me so odd. It's very flattering, but I don't think I will ever consider myself to be a sex symbol.
— Ed Sheeran
It's my custom to say something flattering to begin with so I shall be excused if I put my foot in it later on.
— Prince Philip
Yeah, flattering." Percy raised Riptide. "But actually I'm the son of Poseidon. I'm from Camp Half-Blood.
— Rick Riordan
She was dressed in the softest grape blue, a gentle color neither navy nor purple, nor yet silver. It was subtle, expensive and extremely flattering.
— Anne Perry
For lack of a better term, they've labeled me a sex symbol. It's flattering and it should happen to every bald, overweight guy.
— Dennis Franz
Love from the fans is flattering. That's what makes the show. They are so essential to everything involved with 'Once Upon a Time.'
— Jamie Dornan
If you are flattering a woman, it pays to be a little more subtle. You don't have to bother with men, they believe any compliment automatically.
— Alan Ayckbourn
I adore the designer B. Michael's curve-flattering gowns, but there is nothing better than jeans with a crisp white shirt.
— Tamara Tunie
I am a huge Eminem fan and find it flattering that he would rap about me. Personally, I'm honored.
— Kim Kardashian
It's incredibly flattering to be a U.S. senator, which I want to stay at for a long time.
— Cory Booker
My responsibility isn't to paint a flattering portrait; my responsibility is to paint a real portrait, a true portrait.
— Jhumpa Lahiri
General ideas are more flattering. And then professionals and even amateurs always end up by being right
— Jean-Paul Sartre
It is profitable wisdom to know when we have done enough: Much time and pains are spared in not flattering ourselves against probabilities.
— William Penn
Paparazzi need more flattering lenses.
— Sandra Bullock
She says it's really not very flattering to her that the women who fall in love with her husband are so uncommonly second-rate.
— W. Somerset Maugham
It's flattering that people want to know so much about me and want to take the time to make up that many things about me.
— Lindsay Lohan
The genteel is a mighty catafalque of service-with-a-smile and flattering solicitude smothering every spontaneous movement of thought or feeling.
— Marshall McLuhan
When you do a film, all you want is to make the best film possible. You don't think about Oscars. But it's really flattering. Please, bring it on!
— Demian Bichir
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.
— Bibhu Mohapatra
The fact that audiences have come away moved, excited, entertained and stimulated by the film is extraordinarily flattering.
— Natalie Portman
If people have split views about your work, I think it's flattering. I'd rather have them feel something about it than dismiss it.
— Stephen Sondheim
Keep your jacket buttoned. Always. It's just really flattering - it will take pounds off you.
— Tom Ford
American Eagle clothing is stylish, flattering and all about embracing your individuality.
— Shay Mitchell
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.
— George R R Martin
I realized I'd only seen him at night in dim, flattering restaurant lighting. The sun was not his friend.
— Augusten Burroughs
The attention was flattering. For the first five minutes. Now I know how poems feel.
— Margaret Edson
My fashion advice is to have a flattering mirror and then forget about it.
— Vivienne Westwood
Almost every Marine I've met says I portray a Marine dead-on, which is really, really flattering.
— Catherine Bell
I always find it flattering when somebody recognizes me.
— Rick Moranis
All a writer wants is to be read, and people are so flattering and lovely. I mean, there are witches out there as well. But most are so kind.
— E.L. James
I think it's so strange that certain people think they know you because you've been in a film. It's very flattering, but it's also very scary.
— Jaye Davidson
Sometimes belts are flattering, and it helps with proportions.
— Olivia Palermo
The heart breaks when, after having been elated by flattering hopes, it sees all its illusions destroyed.
— Alexandre Dumas
No, let the monarch's bags and others holdThe flattering, mighty, nay, al-mighty gold.
— John Wolcot
Yes, black is slimming, but it's not always youthful. The right tone of red, however, is flattering on all women.
— Twiggy
Balthazar Balsan is not a self-portrait. If he was, I'd have made the character more flattering.
— Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt
I guess it's flattering that everyone believed I was those characters, but it also is dehumanizing.
— David Bowie
Every once in a while, there's somebody who will recognize me and want a picture, which is cool; it's flattering.
— Brandon Jenner
Maybe nobody ever saw themselves completely objectively. Every self-image needs a flattering mirror or two.
— Victor LaValle
In a word, many flattering things were said of them. But there was some criticism. People spoke with horror of the number of books they had read.
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Exclusive attention to the person who is speaking to you is very important. Nothing else is so flattering as that.
— Dale Carnegie
The encomium of one incapable of flattery is indeed flattering.
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
The swan murmurs sweet strains with a flattering tongue, itself the singer of its own dirge.
— Martial
I'm never going to be like, 'Oh, this attention from women sucks.' It's flattering 99 percent of the time.
— Taylor Kitsch
If people like to see me with my shirt off, it's enormously flattering. But that doesn't mean I'm going to take my shirt off all the time.
— Henry Cavill
The fame stuff, the kind words from websites and things, are very flattering and lovely, but I just wanna act.
— Matthew Lewis
I thought this convention phenomenon was very flattering, but that's about the extent of it.
— George Takei
Grudging praise is the most flattering of all.
— Mike Carey
While being called beautiful is extremely flattering, I would much rather be noticed for my work as an actress.
— Halle Berry