Flattering Quotes

• He who knows how to flatter also knows how to slander.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Power, Hypocrisy, Politics

  Napoleon Bonaparte “Napoleon in his own words from the French of Jules Bertaut”, Рипол Классик

  97 Copy quote

  Show source

• Do not let a flattering woman coax and wheedle you and deceive you; she is after your barn.

  Hesiod

  Guitar, Barns, Literature

  61 Copy quote

• It is quite annoying that we have to change the sound we invented just to avoid sounding like people who simply copy us, but... it is flattering and of course challenging.

  Jonathan Davis

  People, Annoyed, Challenges

  31 Copy quote

• Yet each man kills the thing he loves By each let this be heard Some do it with a bitter look Some with a flattering word The coward does it with a kiss The brave man with a sword

  Oscar Wilde

  Courage, Betrayal, Kissing

  The Ballad of Reading Gaol pt. 1, st. 7 (1898) See Roberts 1

  27 Copy quote

  Show source

• Flattery is like chewing gum. Enjoy it but don't swallow it.

  Hank Ketcham

  Inspirational, Cynical, Gum

  96 Copy quote

• Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.

  Edmund Burke

  Flattery, Giver, Adulation

  Edmund Burke (1790). “Reflections on the Revolution in France: And on the Proceedings in Certain Societies in London Relative to that Event. In a Letter Intended to Have Been Sent to a Gentleman in Paris”, p.9

  16 Copy quote

  Show source

• A fool flatters himself, a wise man flatters the fool.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Inspirational, Funny, Wise

  45 Copy quote

• Only God is able to humble us without humiliating us and to exalt us without flattering us.

  Ravi Zacharias

  Humble, Able, Humiliating

  Ravi Zacharias (2005). “Recapture the Wonder”, p.118, Thomas Nelson Inc

  89 Copy quote

  Show source

• I'm not recognized very often, and if I am, it's a die-hard Veronica Mars fan. Which is usually flattering and an honor. I really try not to think about it.

  Kristen Bell

  Thinking, Honor, Trying

  11 Copy quote

• And they kind of left to find a guitar player at the very end, so you know, I don't really take it as any slight that I wasn't able to play on the record. It's flattering just to play with them period.

  James Iha

  Player, Guitar, Records

  10 Copy quote

• Well, you know, when people say stuff about you, it's always really flattering. But does it mean anything to me? It's not really real to me; there's no reality to it.

  Paul Giamatti

  Real, Mean, People

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• They who have reasoned ignorantly, or who have aimed at effecting their personal ends by flattering the popular feeling, have boldly affirmed that 'one man is as good as another'; a maxim that is true in neither nature, revealed morals, nor political theory.

  James F. Cooper

  Men, Political, Feelings

  "The American Democrat: Or, Hints on the Social and Civic Relations of the United States of America". Book by James F. Cooper, 1838.

  10 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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

  Funny, Sex, Humorous

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

  11 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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

  Hands, Remember, Surreal

  "A chat with Will Ferrell". Interview with Stephanie Snipes, www.cnn.com. November 07, 2003.

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• Poetry and consumption are the most flattering of diseases.

  William Shenstone

  Poetry, Disease, Consumption

  William Shenstone (1868). “The Poetical Works of William Shenstone: With Life, Critical Dissertation and Explanatory Notes”, p.18

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• It would be flattering to call it a modern Dirty Harry, but I think this film deals more with the loss of his wife than the traditional revenge vigilante films.

  Vin Diesel

  Revenge, Dirty, Loss

  8 Copy quote

• Action is consolatory. It is the enemy of thought and the friend of flattering illusions.

  Joseph Conrad

  Enemy, Literature, Action

  Nostromo (1904) pt. 1, ch. 6

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• I dont know if Im a heartthrob or if I want to be one! I heard that I get the most fan mail. Its very flattering, and lovely to be popular with the public.

  Christopher Parker

  Lovely, Fans, Want

  9 Copy quote

• An image has stuck for most of my career and it isn't flattering.

  Robbie Fowler

  Careers, Stuck

  Robbie Fowler (2009). “Fowler: My Autobiography”, p.106, Pan Macmillan

  15 Copy quote

  Show source

• I always find it flattering when somebody recognizes me.

  Rick Moranis

  8 Copy quote

• Words really flattering are not those which we prepare but those which escape us unthinkingly.

  Ninon de L'Enclos

  10 Copy quote

• I was on the cover of a lot of newspapers. I was on the cover of USA Today for every single day for a month. I was on the masthead, so I tend to get recognized a lot, and in weird places. It's always flattering, and it's always odd. It's always at the worst possible time.

  Augusten Burroughs

  Usa, America, Today

  8 Copy quote

• A man sufficiently gifted with humor is in small danger of succumbing to flattering delusions about himself, because he cannot help perceiving what a pompous ass he would become if he did.

  Konrad Lorenz

  Men, Helping, Ass

  KONRAD LORENZ (1963). “ON AGRESSION”

  106 Copy quote

  Show source

• Christian, thou knowest thou carriest Gunpowder about thee, desire those that carry Fire to keep at a Distance from thee; 'tis a dangerous Crisis when a proud Heart meets with flattering Lips.

  John Flavel

  Christian, Distance, Heart

  "The Whole Works of the Reverend Mr. John Flavel".

  10 Copy quote

  Show source

• Flattery is all right so long as you don't inhale.

  Adlai E. Stevenson

  Humility, Long, Flattery

  20 Copy quote