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He did not flatter me. It was I who found his appreciation flattering.
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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
How flattering," I grumbled. "My soul glows.
— Rick Riordan
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
Vivienne Westwood makes such beautifully structured clothes that are especially flattering if you are curvy.
— Antonia Thomas
Much did I rage when young, Being by the world oppressed, But now with flattering tongue It speeds the parting guest.
— William Butler Yeats
Men sometimes think they hate flattery, but they hate only the manner of flattering.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
I guess it's flattering that everyone believed I was those characters, but it also is dehumanizing.
— David Bowie
The fame stuff, the kind words from websites and things, are very flattering and lovely, but I just wanna act.
— Matthew Lewis
I'm never going to be like, 'Oh, this attention from women sucks.' It's flattering 99 percent of the time.
— Taylor Kitsch
Sometimes belts are flattering, and it helps with proportions.
— Olivia Palermo
The encomium of one incapable of flattery is indeed flattering.
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
Exclusive attention to the person who is speaking to you is very important. Nothing else is so flattering as that.
— Dale Carnegie
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
Maybe nobody ever saw themselves completely objectively. Every self-image needs a flattering mirror or two.
— Victor LaValle
Every once in a while, there's somebody who will recognize me and want a picture, which is cool; it's flattering.
— Brandon Jenner
I thought this convention phenomenon was very flattering, but that's about the extent of it.
— George Takei
Balthazar Balsan is not a self-portrait. If he was, I'd have made the character more flattering.
— Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt
I always find it flattering when somebody recognizes me.
— Rick Moranis
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
Everyone must accept that we will age and age is not always flattering.
— Amitabh Bachchan
Words really flattering are not those which we prepare but those which escape us unthinkingly.
— Ninon De L'Enclos
Street harassment is not flattering, because it speaks to the fact that men see our presence as an opportunity for sexual advances.
— Luvvie Ajayi
I like everything from Miu Miu. Dolce & Gabbana cocktail dresses are a party essential; they're so flattering.
— Harley Viera-Newton
Keep your jacket buttoned. Always. It's just really flattering - it will take pounds off you.
— Tom Ford
The fact that audiences have come away moved, excited, entertained and stimulated by the film is extraordinarily flattering.
— Natalie Portman
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
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
The genteel is a mighty catafalque of service-with-a-smile and flattering solicitude smothering every spontaneous movement of thought or feeling.
— Marshall McLuhan
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
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
Paparazzi need more flattering lenses.
— Sandra Bullock
Almost every Marine I've met says I portray a Marine dead-on, which is really, really flattering.
— Catherine Bell
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
Do not let a flattering woman coax and wheedle you and deceive you; she is after your barn.
— Hesiod
I realized I'd only seen him at night in dim, flattering restaurant lighting. The sun was not his friend.
— Augusten Burroughs
While being called beautiful is extremely flattering, I would much rather be noticed for my work as an actress.
— Halle Berry
Grudging praise is the most flattering of all.
— Mike Carey
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
