“ To a poet, silence is an acceptable response, even a flattering one. ”
- Sidonie Gabrielle Colette- Copy
- 2.8K
“ 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- Copy
- 812
“ Yet each man kills the thing he loves. From all 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 the sword. ”
- Oscar Wilde- Copy
- 1.5K
“ 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- Copy
- 3.3K
“ The love of their country is with them only a mode of flattering its master; as soon as they think that master can no longer hear, they speak of everything with a frankness which is the more startling because those who listen to it become responsible. ”
- Marquis De Custine- Copy
- 1.4K
“ Poetry and consumption are the most flattering of diseases. ”
- William Shenstone- Copy
- 3.9K
“ I always wear my sweater back-to-front; it is so much more flattering. ”
- Diana Vreeland- Copy
- 3.8K
“ A flattering painter, who made it his care To draw men as they ought to be, not as they are. ”
- Oliver Goldsmith- Copy
- 1.8K
“ While being called beautiful is extremely flattering, I would much rather be noticed for my work as an actress. ”
- Halle Berry- Copy
- 601
“ Always let your flattery be seen through for what really flatters a man is that you think him worth flattering. ”
- George Bernard Shaw- Copy
- 835
“ There are few things that we so unwillingly give up, even in advanced age, as the supposition that we still have the power of ingratiating ourselves with the fair sex. ”
- Samuel Johnson- Copy
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“ To a poet, silence is an acceptable response, even a flattering one. ”
- Colette- Copy
- 3.4K
“ All the president is, is a glorified public relations man who spends his time flattering, kissing, and kicking people to get them to do what they are supposed to do anyway. ”
- Harry S.Truman- Copy
- 1.8K
“ One could make money and get a career going with a low-budget horror film about killers attacking on holidays. It is always flattering to have somebody copy you. ”
- John Carpenter- Copy
- 1.8K
“ I've heard a great many flattering things about Roosevelt, but never that he was notable for his skill in administration. ”
- David Bruce- Copy
- 1.5K
“ Our major universities are now stuck with an army of pedestrian, toadying careerists, Fifties types who wave around Sixties banners to conceal their record of ruthless, beaver-like tunneling to the top. ”
- Camille Paglia- Copy
- 3.9K
“ I'm not a joiner of clubs… But this is a pretty cool club to be in. The past inductees are brilliant, brilliant musicians that have touched my life in many ways, and to be worthy of such company is flattering to me and I appreciate it. ”
- Graham Nash- Copy
- 2K
“ Handshaking is friendly until your hands bleed. Confetti looks festive until you're forced to spit out mouthfuls hurled directly into your face. Applause is wonderful until you can hardly hear yourself speak. A crush of screaming women is flattering until they tear your clothes. ”
- Ralph G. Martin- Copy
- 1.9K
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