Flatter Me Quotes

#1. You believe me wise because I taught you once, but I have not been north, as you have. You have seen (what) I have never seen ... You flatter me by asking my opinion.

Gene Wolfe

#2. Mr. Lely, I desire you would use all your skill to paint my picture truly like me, and not flatter me at all; but remark all these roughnesses, pimples, warts, and everything as you see me, otherwise I will never pay a farthing for it.

Oliver Cromwell

#3. An old philosopher said to Monsieur Coignard, a Reverend Father: 'You are a pig!' To which Abad Coignard answered: 'You flatter me, sir. But unfortunately, I'm only a man.'

Anatole France

#4. Tell me not of joy: there's none Now my little sparrow's gone; He, just as you, Would toy and woo, He would chirp and flatter me, He would hang the wing awhile, Till at length he saw me smile, Lord! how sullen he would be!

William Cartwright

#5. You flatter me shamelessly. I like it. Good.

Kenneth Oppel

#6. If imitation is the greatest form of flattery,
Punk, don't flatter me.

J-Ro

#7. The salesmen bought me perfume and invited me to lunch. But they couldn't talk to me about why families of guajiros slept in the city's parks under flashing Coca-Cola signs. Those men only murmured sweet nonsense to me, trying in vain to flatter me.

Cristina Garcia

#8. He did not flatter me. It was I who found his appreciation flattering.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#9. I see. Because I'm not hideous, not a drunkard, and appear to bathe regularly, you picked me. How you flatter me.

Chris Karlsen

#10. Compliments and flattery oftenest excite my contempt by the pretension they imply; for who is he that assumes to flatter me? To compliment often implies an assumption of superiority in the complimenter. It is, in fact, a subtle detraction.

Henry David Thoreau

#11. Can't you just keep your big mouth shut?" Brian said furiously to Nan. He pointed to Chrestomanci. "How do we know he's safe? For all we know, he could be the devil that you summoned up!"
"Oh, you flatter me, Brian," Chrestomanci said.

Diana Wynne Jones

#12. Oh, flatter me; for love delights in praises.

William Shakespeare

#13. Flatter me, but delicately, please, for I am fastidious.

Mason Cooley

#14. THE Superintendent said to me: "I only keep you out of regard for your worthy father; but for that you would have been sent flying long ago." I replied to him: "You flatter me too much, your Excellency, in assuming that I am capable of flying.

Anton Chekhov

#15. No need to flatter me, Miss Price. I believe your bait worked. I'm hooked. Line and sinker.

Fisher Amelie

#16. I don't care how stylish something is if it doesn't flatter me.

Ali Larter

#17. Sidious bowed his head in deference. "In the annals of Sith history, you will be known as Plagueis the Wise." Plagueis quirked a cunning smile. "You flatter me.

James Luceno

#18. Flatter me, and I may not believe you. Criticize me, and I may not like you. Ignore me, and I may not forgive you. Encourage me, and I will not forget you. Love me and I may be forced to love you.

William Arthur Ward

#19. I need not hate any man; he cannot hurt me. I need not flatter any man; he has nothing to give me.

Virginia Woolf

#20. If any man flatters me, I'll flatter him again; tho' he were my best Friend.

Benjamin Franklin

#21. To me, there are four F's in a good tax system: it ought to be flatter, fairer, finite and family-friendly.

Mike Huckabee

#22. I want a warm and faithful friend, To cheer the adverse hour; Who ne'er to flatter will descend, Nor bend the knee to power,- A friend to chide me when I'm wrong, My inmost soul to see; And that my friendship prove as strong For him as his for me.

John Quincy Adams

#23. Turn over that stone" - she pointed to a flint nearby - "and you will find a charlatan who will dazzle you with the favorable conjunction of Mercury and Venus, flatter your future, and sell you colored water for a gold piece. I can't be bothered with it. From me you get the actuality.

Ariana Franklin

#24. I assumed that everything must yield to me, that the entire universe had to flatter my whims, and that I had the right to satisfy them at will.

Marquis De Sade

#25. He liked me because I am short. I flatter myself. He did not dislike me. He liked no one except Josephine and he liked her the way he liked chicken.

Jeanette Winterson

#26. I know he likes me. Of course I flatter him dreadfully. I find a strange pleasure in saying things to him that I know I shall be sorry for having said.

Oscar Wilde

#27. A stylish person, for me, is one who draws your eye without necessarily being showy; they wear clothes that are beautifully cut, flatter the wearer, and show that they are not impervious to fashion, but not a slave to it either.

Jojo Moyes

#28. Those who enter to buy, support me. Those who come to flatter, please me. Those who complain, teach me how I may please others so that more will come. Those only hurt me who are displeased but do not complain. They refuse me permission to correct my errors and thus improve my service.

Marshall Field

#29. Living in Hollywood, it's easy to have someone flatter you. That doesn't help me.

Marilyn Manson

#30. I must not say what I truly think, or you will tell me I flatter you-but I can only speak what I feel-and very often I cannot even do that when the feeling is very deep.

Marie Corelli

#31. Therefore I lie with her and she with me,
And in our faults by lies we flatter'd be.

William Shakespeare

#32. By God, I cannot flatter, I do defy The tongues of soothers! but a braver place In my heart's love hath no man than yourself. Nay, task me to my word; approve me, lord.

William Shakespeare

#33. Do not flatter yourself. You cannot tempt me.

Franca Storm

#34. Let me tell you how the French seduce you. They are the most bloody seductive people on Earth. They are charming, they are well-mannered and they praise and flatter you.

Anita Roddick