Top 23 I Flatter Myself Quotes
#1. Nobody ought to be too old to improve: I should be sorry if I was; and I flatter myself I have already improved considerably by my travels. First, I can swallow gruel soup, egg soup, and all manner of soups, without making faces much. Secondly, I can pretty well live without tea ...
Anna Letitia Barbauld
#2. I must say, Graystone, you are surviving married life very nicely." Peter helped himself to claret from the decanter that had been set out in the library.
"Thank you, Sheldrake. I flatter myself that not every man could survive being married to Augusta.
Amanda Quick
#3. The women who inspired this play deserved to be smacked across the head with a meat ax and that, I flatter myself, is exactly what I smacked them with.
Clare Boothe Luce
#4. 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
#5. I flatter myself, at times, that though among them, I am not of them
Anne Bronte
#6. You can always draw as well as you know how to. I flatter myself that I feel more than I express on canvas; but I know that is not so.
William Morris Hunt
#7. I flatter myself [we] have in this country extinguished forever the ambitious hope of making laws for the human mind.
James Madison
#8. You would say you don't see it: at least I flatter myself I read as much in your eye (beware, by-the-by, what you express with that organ, I am quick at interpreting its language).
Charlotte Bronte
#9. From the very first I took a firm and rooted dislike to him, and I flatter myself that my first judgments are usually fairly shrewd.
Agatha Christie
#10. If I prove extravagant, I shall be more so from ignorance than willfulness. I am not wholly insensible to the pleasures of the world, therefore shall not be governed entirely by necessity; but I flatter myself, at least, in being able to restrain their gratification within due bonds.
Washington Allston
#11. I think impersonation is a great art. It's something that I enjoy doing, in a frivolous and lighthearted way. But I don't flatter myself to think I'm an impersonator.
Andrea Riseborough
#12. I don't flatter myself with much dependence upon the present disposition of the Eastern Indians, who are many ways liable to be drawn into a rupture with us by the artifices of the French, their own weakness and the influence which the French Missionary Priests have over them.
William Shirley
#13. I should be glad if I could flatter myself that I came as near the central idea of the occasion, in two hours, as you did in two minutes.
Edward Everett
#14. Were I to flatter myself with the possibility of success in such combat, it would indeed be presumption.
Anna Seward
#15. Steve Job's tombstone is flatter than anybody else's.
Niko Stoifberg
#16. When your friends begin to flatter you on how young you look, it's a sure sign you're getting old.
Mark Twain
#17. Bosh. I find a rival - but no, I won't flatter myself that Tecumseh Fox would consider himself a rival of Dol Bonner - I find an eminent detective in your apartment, and that alone is enough, without adding that he is concealed in your bedroom while I am discussing my business with you ...
Rex Stout
#18. Critics kind never mind! Critics flatter no matter! Critics blame all the same! Do your best damn the rest!
Arthur Conan Doyle
#19. Living in Hollywood, it's easy to have someone flatter you. That doesn't help me.
Marilyn Manson
#20. The conquest of the earth, which mostly means the taking it away from those who have a different complexion or slightly flatter noses than ourselves, is not a pretty thing when you look into it much.
Joseph Conrad
#22. There's much we can all do for men, including helping them feel wanted without their having to do anything life threatening. Perhaps women always knew this instinctively, which is why we tend to flatter our men and laugh at all their jokes, letting them think they're funnier than women.
Faye Flam
#23. I don't flatter myself - I'm not a scientist, I'm not a conservation expert.
Edward Norton
