Being Flattered Quotes

#1. Being fathomed was even better than being flattered, it turned out.

Scott Westerfeld

#2. I don't like being flattered. It doesn't suit my English sensibilities. Remember, we are the great country of understatement.

Martin Parr

#3. Men like you enjoy being flattered.

Ilona Andrews

#4. To flatter and follow others, without being flattered and followed in turn, is but a state of half enjoyment

Jane Austen

#5. Had I known you were going to pull a pretty ribbon out of your sleeve like some two-bit magician, tie me up with it, and indulge your mental torture fetish in your basement, I would've shot you. Many times."
"Two-bit magician?"
"Men like you enjoy being flattered.

Ilona Andrews

#6. An Englishman, being flattered, is a lamb; threatened, a lion.

George Chapman

#7. I do see, in some younger writers, elements and things that I have used - and I am very touched and flattered because I am part of a tapestry that is being absorbed by authors.

Isobelle Carmody

#8. He flattered himself on being a man without any prejudices; and his pretension itself is a very great prejudice.

Anatole France

#9. I do always feel very proud and flattered by being asked to be a part of American productions playing American characters.

Toby Jones

#10. I was so flattered to be asked to be in the movies - the idea of being paid to act was heady stuff.

Piper Laurie

#11. It was important to remember who you were and where you came from, no matter how successful you became.

Candace Bushnell

#12. While I am flattered about the speculation of being enticed out of retirement, I'm happy with life as a bad golfer!

Chipper Jones

#13. Tibby cried into her soup when it finally came. "I'm scared ... ," she told it. The carrots and peas made no reply, but she felt better for having told them.

Ann Brashares

#14. I'm always flattered when people on the far Left manufacture a new version of being 'offended.' They can be quite creative in finding something that hurts their feelings.

Mike Huckabee

#15. 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

#16. I think of the Sixties as being every man for himself.

Penelope Tree

#17. There's nothing people like better than being asked an easy question. For some reason, we're flattered when a stranger asks us where Maple Street is in our hometown and we can tell him.

Andy Rooney

#18. Men admitted to being endlessly fascinated with the naked female form; they appreciated women in a detached, impersonal way that women, even those women who were flattered by such attention, rarely understood.

Gay Talese

#19. It's hard to get the downtrodden working-class wifey sometimes because 'You don't look like it'. Well, that's weird because I grew up on a scheme in Paisley. But everyone's got a viewpoint about what you should look like, and it's tainted by prejudices and assumptions.

Neve McIntosh

#20. Most of the stuff I've read about me has been true.

Willie Nelson

#21. Men are not flattered by being shown that there has been a difference of purpose between the Almighty and them.

Abraham Lincoln

#22. China is not only formidable, it is also aggressively building its own economic infrastructure. Just a few years from now, China will rival the U.S. and the European Union in global market power. It already has surpassed us in population.

Jo Ann Emerson

#23. You are all dirty and grungy. You go step in the shower and you come out clean. When you enter into the white light, it does something to you.

Frederick Lenz

#24. Whatever happens, happens.

Keiko Nobumoto

#25. I don't find offensive that I'm being labelled a babe by blokes. I'm absolutely flattered.

Kirsty Gallacher

#26. Of course, we need not be surprised if artistic excellence goes unrecognized on account of being unknown; but there should be the greatest indignation when, as often, good judges are flattered by the charm of social entertainments into an approbation which is a mere a pretence.

Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

#27. I think what I have done is claimed the space and pushed it forward as much as I can in relationship to who I am and how I live my life.

Mickalene Thomas

#28. Theatre is a voyage into the archives of the human imagination

Natasha Tsakos

#29. I would be lying if I said I'm not flattered being voted as the 'Time's' Most Desirable Man of 2012. Frankly, I have no idea how the desirability quotient is arrived at. If it is just drop dead good looks, then I have to thank God and my parents for it.

Arjun Rampal

#30. These bitter accusations might have been suppressed, had I, with greater policy, concealed my struggles, and flattered you into the belief of my being impelled by unqualified, unalloyed inclination; by reason, by reflection, by everything. But disguise of every sort is my abhorrence.

Jane Austen

#31. It doesn't take a majority to change a society, or a faith. Only a small minority that yells, threatens, kills, that is willing to do anything to prove to themselves that they're right.

Roland Merullo

#32. As we depend upon our masters, for what we eat and drink and wear, and for all our comfortable things in this world, we cannot be happy, unless we please them.

Jupiter Hammon