Top 100 Quotes About Flattered
#1. It is a very high mind to which gratitude is not a painful sensation. If you wish to please, you will find it wiser to receive, solicit even, favors, than accord them; for the vanity of the obligor is always flattered, that of the obligee rarely.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
#2. I'm honestly flattered and humbled that anyone would show interest in something I've done, forever.
Wesley Eisold
#3. I don't see the desert as barren at all; I see it as full and ripe. It doesn't need to be flattered with rain. It certainly needs rain, but it does with what it has, and creates amazing beauty.
Joy Harjo
#4. Men are not flattered by being shown that there has been a difference of purpose between the Almighty and them.
Abraham Lincoln
#5. People see my impressions as a great skill and I am flattered, but there are things I can't do that everyone else can. I can do funny voices and funny faces but I can't drive.
Matt Lucas
#6. I think the correct term for this was 'pissing contest', and though I was flattered, I didn't have time for it.
Kim Harrington
#7. It's your fault. I was defending you!" I blurted.
He paused. "In protecting my honor, you exposed months of work. I should be flattered?
Maria V. Snyder
#8. He that is much flattered soon learns to flatter himself.
Samuel Johnson
#9. Women who are either indisputably beautiful, or indisputably ugly, are best flattered upon the score of their understandings.
Lord Chesterfield
#10. 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
#11. Roger was not flattered, because he did not recognize what was happening. Things that do not matter to him are invisible.
Priya Parmar
#12. I do always feel very proud and flattered by being asked to be a part of American productions playing American characters.
Toby Jones
#13. I was so flattered to be asked to be in the movies - the idea of being paid to act was heady stuff.
Piper Laurie
#14. You should be flattered, he said mildly. Not many breathers affect me this way.
Evangeline Anderson
#15. Yeah, I've always been accused of having a sense of mischief and I'm very flattered that you say you can see it in the roles I play, because I think that's important, even if I do play intense characters, like especially Christine Cagney.
Sharon Gless
#16. It was a matter of perspective, I began to see.
The whole world was crazy; I'd flattered myself by assuming I was a semifinalist.
Dolores Price
Wally Lamb
#17. Perhaps I should be flattered that somebody imagines the name is worth so much, especially since my parents gave me the same name 42 years ago for free.
Bill Gates
#18. I'm flattered by the fact that most people tell me they don't know what my politics are.
Charlie Rose
#19. To flatter and follow others, without being flattered and followed in turn, is but a state of half enjoyment
Jane Austen
#20. Maybe he used a bit too much hair spray, but the James Dean coif flattered him.
Jamie McGuire
#21. I'm not sure whether to be flattered or offended, so I decide to be both.
Winter Renshaw
#22. While I am flattered about the speculation of being enticed out of retirement, I'm happy with life as a bad golfer!
Chipper Jones
#23. I'm starting to see players copy what I do. I'm flattered.
Dennis Rodman
#24. 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
#25. 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
#26. The other two knights would have flattered me to put me at ease. But he was different, somehow bolder and requiring boldness of me at the same time. My
Jody Hedlund
#27. I am quite certain that the crimes of this guilty land will never be purged away but with blood. I had, as I now think vainly, flattered myself that without very much bloodshed it might be done.
John Brown
#28. This guy in L.A. asks for my autograph every time I see him. Then I find out he's eBaying 'em for $50. I'm flattered, but no one's going to pay $50 for anyone's autograph, let alone mine.
Julia Voth
#29. I'm incredibly flattered when people tell me that my books helped them through high school. Because of my own experience, the thought that something I wrote might help someone who felt the way I did when I was a teen ... that's huge. It awes me.
Sarah Dessen
#30. People that are obsessed with hating you, feel flattered. Their whole lives revolve around you.
Lady Gaga
#31. I love you, Guy Boy Man. I love you in a very gay way ... "
"Jeez. I'm flattered, Honey. I'm sorry, though. I've chosen to be heterosexual ... Do you want to be my homoerotic sidekick?
James Marshall
#32. So I'm an ace?' Will grinned. 'I'm flattered Halt, flattered. I had no idea you regarded me so highly.'
Halt gave him a long-suffering look. 'I might have been more accurate to say a joker.'
Whatever you say.
John Flanagan
#33. Henson had never spoken to me about Kermit, but he had spoken to Frank Oz about the idea of me doing the character if he became too busy. I felt flattered.
Steve Whitmire
#34. Adroit observers will find that some who affect to dislike flattery, may yet be flattered indirectly, by a well seasoned abuse and ridicule of their rivals.
Charles Caleb Colton
#35. Do not be taken in or flattered by your own success or fame. Take not only as to whether or not the old creation, including everything which comes by birth, has gone through the cross.
Watchman Nee
#36. Fair Fatality, you are the most unusual female I have encountered in all my thirty-eight years!" "You can't think how deeply flattered I am!" she assured him. "I daresay my head would be quite turned if I didn't suspect that amongst so many a dozen or so may have slipped from your memory.
Georgette Heyer
#37. So are you going to tell me why you're running around my home at midnight and yelling my name? Don't get me wrong, I'm flattered it's my name you're screaming, it's just now how I imagined you doing it" Asher
Randi Cooley Wilson
#38. Don't be flattered that he misses you. He should miss you. You are deeply missable. However, he's still the same person who just broke up with you. Remember, the only reason he can miss you is because he's choosing, every day, not to be with you.
Greg Behrendt
#39. Flattered as I am that you count me among the beautiful people, Barrons, allow me to point out that I'm still alive. I encountered the Gray Man and I'm still here, just as pretty as always, dickhead.
Karen Marie Moning
#40. I can't tell you the number of people that are like, 'Has anyone ever told you you look like a blonde Liv Tyler?' And at this point, I'm like, 'Yes ... yes, I've been told that.' I mean, she's beautiful. It's not like I'm not totally flattered by it, but then again, I think I look like myself.
Gillian Jacobs
#41. Dixon was not unconscious of this awed reverence which was given to her; nor did she dislike it; it flattered her as much as Louis the Fourteenth was flattered by his courtiers shading their eyes from the dazzling light of his presence.
Elizabeth Gaskell
#42. The need to do what's right, and maybe find a little adventure along the way." Poe shifted in his seat. "You remind me of my brother," Leia said softly. "Fly like him, too, apparently." Poe looked at her, surprised and flattered at once.
Greg Rucka
#43. It's funny when people say they see a lot of Madonna in me. I just feel so flattered because I love her and I am just her biggest fan. She is very strong. I love the way she does interviews -you know you won't get anything past her.
Lady Gaga
#44. College professors have two bad traits. They are logical
and they are easily flattered.
Gertrude Stein
#45. The fact that anyone would find me sexy is very, very flattering, but ridiculous. I so don't believe it. But I'm flattered. Truth is, I don't lift a finger to look sexy. Ever.
Laura Prepon
#46. I was so flattered that someone wanted me to write a book, I said I would. It was published in 1969.
Jilly Cooper
#47. I flattered myself by thinking that, if faced with such a circumstance, I would respond within the letter of the law; but passion is a strange thing, a thing that warps and twists everything with which it comes in contact.
Craig Johnson
#48. George feels flattered and excited ... He can't resist slipping into the role Kenny so temptingly offers him.
Christopher Isherwood
#49. Little pinpricks fire-cracker up and down my body. Just calm down, I tell myself. You just make her nervous showing up all out of the blue like that. Still, I'm flattered that I matter
even if it's just enough to scare her.
Gayle Forman
#50. My vanity was flattered by having been mistaken for our revered sovereign. I ordered a banquet to be got ready for the following evening, under the trees before my house, and invited the whole town.
Adelbert Von Chamisso
#52. It seems dangerous to be a portrait artist who does commissions for clients because everyone wants to be flattered, so they pose in such a way that there's nothing left of truth.
Henri Cartier-Bresson
#53. I was very flattered by the sex-kitten thing because I never thought of myself as that.
Ann-Margret
#55. And how I flattered myself
From time to time with proving to myself
Nothing in you could be unknown to me.
You don't belong to the mind's calculations,
And you disproved each of my demonstrations,
Since to be unexpected is your truth.
Yevgeny Yevtushenko
#57. I always was flattered when people would say I would do whatever it took for the team. I always thought of myself as that kind of guy.
Logan Mankins
#58. Don't worry," she says. "Ernest always attracted obsessives. You were only one of many. And secretly, sometimes, I think he was flattered. Nobody ever stalked Fitzgerald.
Naomi Wood
#59. Our self-love is mortified, when we think our opinions, and even our tastes, customs, and dresses, either arraigned or condemned;as, on the contrary, it is tickled and flattered by approbation.
Lord Chesterfield
#60. [Theseus] soon found himself involved in factions and troubles; those who long had hated him had now added to their hatred contempt; and the minds of the people were so generally corrupted, that, instead of obeying commands with silence, they expected to be flattered into their duty.
Plutarch
#61. I'm sure I'm very grateful to you, Philip. I'm very much flattered at your proposal.'
'Oh, don't talk rot. You will marry me, won't you?'
'D'you think we should be happy?'
'No. But what does that matter?
W. Somerset Maugham
#62. You don't want to be flattered and become big-headed by getting awards. But, well, I am.
Johnny Vegas
#63. Here is my hand, and here I firmly vow
Never to woo her more, but do forswear her
As one unworthy all the former favors
That I have fondly flattered her withal.
William Shakespeare
#64. I do not wish to flatter my townsmen, nor to be flattered by them, for that will not advance either of us.
Henry David Thoreau
#65. While my friend was my friend, he flattered me, and I never heard the truth from him. When he became my enemy, he shot it to me on a poisoned arrow.
Henry David Thoreau
#66. God was treated like this powerful, erratic, rather punitive father who has to be pacified and praised. You know, flattered.
John Cleese
#67. Nonetheless, I can't help but be flattered that you noticed the latest addition to my collection," he said.
She rolled her eyes. "Because personal injuries are such a dignified thing to collect."
"Are all governesses so sarcastic?
Julia Quinn
#68. Naturally, there are times when every woman likes to be flattered ... to feel she is the most important thing in someone's world. Only a man can paint this picture.
Marilyn Monroe
#69. I was always flattered, but I just want my movies to make money. I want to be commercial. I'm never the person who says, "I don't care if people don't see my movies." I always want people to see my movies.
John Waters
#70. I didn't know that people compared Bill Hicks and I but certainly I'm flattered if they do. I knew Bill a bit. We had dinner a couple of times and played guitar together once. I really tried to keep my distance from him professionally.
Marc Maron
#71. And, indeed, nature has so made us, that we all love to be flattered and to please ourselves with our own notions
Thomas More
#72. Hank, this is great."
"Yes."
He said it simply, openly. There was no flattered pleasure in his voice, and no modesty. This, she knew, was a tribute to her, the rarest one person could pay another: the tribute of feeling free to acknowledge one's own greatness, knowing that it is understood.
Ayn Rand
#73. I don't know what "Altmanesque" means, though I suppose I'm flattered by it.
Robert Altman
#74. I'm flattered that other artists consider me a role model.
Janet Jackson
#75. Happy would it be for women, if they were only flattered by the men who loved them; I mean, who love the individual, not the sex.
Mary Wollstonecraft
#76. The whole world was crazy; I'd flattered myself by assuming I was a semifinalist.
Wally Lamb
#77. Here lies one who neither flattered nor feared any flesh.
John Knox
#78. I am flattered that they think that many people would enjoy my work. I don't approach any genre a different way than I may approach another one. I treat every role I do like a role worthy of applying whatever kind of tactic, process and talent I have.
Vin Diesel
#80. The object of love should feel honoured or flattered, responsible in some way. Instead he felt insulted, degraded and revolted. More than that, he felt put upon.
Stephen Fry
#81. He flattered himself on being a man without any prejudices; and his pretension itself is a very great prejudice.
Anatole France
#82. I've spent a large portion of the last 40 years hunting Dragons because of you. Be flattered, disturbed ... Whatever floats your boat.
Tiberius of Triad
C.O.A series
Kim Cormack
#83. I am very flattered. I have also become a verb as in "I have cumberbatched the UK audience" apparently. Who knows, by the end of the year I might become a swear word too! It's crazy and fun and very flattering.
Benedict Cumberbatch
#84. I'm flattered that women think that I'm sexy.
Laz Alonso
#85. This is my first ... ah ... "
"Haunting?" he offered.
I snorted. "Yes, this is my first haunting."
"Then I'm flattered.
Tara Hudson
#86. You read the Miss Bea Haven column?" She sounded pleasantly surprised, almost flattered.
"Of course not. A column where the sexiest woman on earth pleasures herself with sex toys and then writes about it? Gross.
Tiffany Reisz
#87. Children should learn to draw as they learn to write, and such a mystery should not be made of it. They should be encouraged, not flattered ... then [later in life] double the effort is required to get the facility which might have been gained insensibly.
William Morris Hunt
#88. Someone I flattered in a book pretends he owes me nothing. Oh the trash I have for friends.
- Martial (40 AD - 104 AD), Epigram V, xxxvi
Marcus Valerius Martialis
#89. I'm always flattered and honored when people cover my music or sing my songs, no matter where it is.
Amos Lee
#90. 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
#91. Flirting is a "controversial art form" that leaves the intended either flattered, infatuated, creeped out or getting a restraining order.
Shannon L. Alder
#92. A lot of people have been saying 'The 100' reminds them of 'Lord Of The Flies,' 'Lost' and 'Battlestar Galactica,' and all of those titles have been very successful and interesting to watch. Any time anyone refers to any of those great shows, I'm flattered.
Marie Avgeropoulos
#93. Those shows I did with Queen were pretty surreal. I was really excited and super-flattered, but intimidated at the same time.
Adam Lambert
#94. My credit card company says I have an outstanding balance. I'm flattered.
Demetri Martin
#95. 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
#96. I'm a little flattered you're worried, but - " "Don't be." He grinned. "Do you know how much paperwork is involved when people get killed in prison?
Darynda Jones
#97. He didn't answer, but I wasn't bothered. I was flattered that we'd gotten to this stage already, that our minds could wander without apology. We passed through a long swath of fireflies, thousands of them flashing all round us, and it felt like soaring through stars.
Lily King
#98. You show me a teenager who doesn't like to be flattered and I'll show you a teenager who's got a steady source of sex.
Dale Peck
#99. I'm flattered anytime someone has taken enough time to listen to me and make a connection to someone else, honestly.
Charlie Worsham
#100. Um, hello?" I raised a hand. "Not a traitor, and the Queen told us where to find you. Or do you think that we're such major badasses that we fought our way through the knowe to come and loiter at you in an imposing fashion? Because I've got to say I'm flattered.
Seanan McGuire
