Quotes About Flattering Someone

#1. I'd love to be in the '70s. I'd love to have a big, long wig parted down the middle with flat-ironed hair and bell-bottoms. They're actually very flattering for my figure. The wider the leg, the better for a person with a booty.

Sarah Paulson

#2. Your own self, your personality and existence are reflected within the mind of each of the people whom you meet, ... into a likeness, a caricature of yourself, which still lives on and appears to be, in some way, the truth about you. Even a flattering picture is ... a lie.

Isak Dinesen

#3. Black is the most slimming of all Colors. It is the most flattering. You can wear black at any Time. You can wear it at any age. You can wear it for almost any occasion. I could write a book about black.

Christian Dior

#4. Only God is able to humble us without humiliating us and to exalt us without flattering us.

Ravi Zacharias

#5. It is profitable wisdom to know when we have done enough: Much time and pains are spared in not flattering ourselves against probabilities.

William Penn

#6. A photograph presents itself not only as a visual representation, but as evidence, more convincing than a painting because of the unimpeachable mechanical means whereby it was made. We do not trust the artist's flattering hand; but we do trust film, and shadows, and light.

John Updike

#7. I have no intention of flattering people. I like wrinkles and crow's feet and flaws, and somebody should know, if I'm going to photograph them, that's going to show up, you know?

Chuck Close

#8. These flattering mirrors reflect imperfectly what is within; the countenance is often a gay deceiver. What defects of mind lie hidden under its beauty! What fair exteriors conceal base souls!

Pierre Corneille

#9. Do not let a flattering woman coax and wheedle you and deceive you; she is after your barn.

Hesiod

#10. A lot has been said about single mothers. Most of it has been less than flattering.

Gayle Tzemach Lemmon

#11. The mere reality of life would be inconceivably poor without the charm of fancy, which brings in its bosom, no doubt, as many vain fears as idle hopes, but lends much oftener to the illusions it calls up a gay flattering hue than one which inspires terror.

Wilhelm Von Humboldt

#12. Being referred to as a hunk or a heartthrob makes me nervous, but it's flattering. But I'm more interested in being an actor than a heartthrob.

Orlando Bloom

#13. It's an honor to have people follow you and watch you. I do get a lot of fan mail and I read everything. It's very flattering and sort of surreal. I'm very glad that people like what I do and they want to follow what's going on.

Helena Mattsson

#14. Yes, black is slimming, but it's not always youthful. The right tone of red, however, is flattering on all women.

Twiggy

#15. Seeing 'Pretty Little Liars' fans adapt and create their own stories is both exciting and flattering, and I think what Amazon Publishing is offering through Kindle Worlds is a great way to reward their ingenuity.

Sara Shepard

#16. I'm sorry, you just remind me of someone. (Rose) Old boyfriend? (Gallagher) No, my great-grandfather. (Rose) That's not particularly flattering. I thought I looked rather good for my age. (Gallagher)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#17. Mostly, it's flattering to meet fans. As long as it's in a planned, professional meeting, rather than, say, someone dropping by my home, which is not as pleasant.

Daniel Handler

#18. Nothing is more flattering for a writer than when someone knows your work.

Hilton Als

#19. You know when someone's over-flattering you in a way. You smile but you can't believe it.

Laura Linney

#20. It was flattering to have someone listen so intently to something that was so personal.

Jude Deveraux

#21. It would be flattering to be thought of as someone who celebrated life.

Bjork

#22. For about three years I was performing at one bar in East Los Angeles that was like a mean dive bar. You're in there performing for drunks or bikers, not the most flattering people. I think it helped build my confidence, because you have to get their attention, then make them laugh.

Gabriel Iglesias

#23. For theater, the fashion had to have a certain grandeur that would read on the stage while also flattering the actress. The same thing applies when doing a wedding dress, but the treatments can be more delicate and there can be much more detail.

Austin Scarlett

#24. I thought I recognized you.
Really? He remembered me looking like Swamp Thing? How flattering.

Josh Lanyon

#25. Storm leans towards her and says in a teaching voice, "Joyans consider it is rude to express one's true opinion unless it is unequivocally flattering."
Her brow furrows. "Then how do the express anything at all?

Rae Carson

#26. 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

#27. They listened with flattering attention. He was filled with enthusiasm. He began at the beginning and tried to tell it as he thought Penny would do. Half-way through, he looked down at the cake. He lost interest in the account.
"Then Pa shot him," he ended abruptly.

Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

#28. Maybe nobody ever saw themselves completely objectively. Every self-image needs a flattering mirror or two.

Victor LaValle

#29. I think that people with differing points of view find common ground in 'Modern Family' is very flattering, and I'm appreciative of that.

Steven Levitan

#30. I wake up every day and look at my own ugly mug in the mirror and don't think twice about it. The fact that other people might want to look at me still feels funny. It's flattering, but funny.

Luke Bracey

#31. Drunkenness is a flattering devil, a sweet poison, a pleasant sin, which whosoever hath, hath not himself, which whosoever doth commit, doth not commit sin, but he himself is wholly sin.

Saint Augustine

#32. Yet each man kills the thing he loves
By each 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 a sword

Oscar Wilde

#33. I've got a great sense of humor, and if I'm able to say or do something in a movie that people feel like they want to repeat, that's hugely flattering.

Matthew McConaughey

#34. Not to sound egomaniac or anything, but just to get under people's skin like that, and for them to believe in you and believe strongly enough to write ... it's flattering and it helps you during the day.

Glenn Quinn

#35. How flattering," I grumbled. "My soul glows.

Rick Riordan

#36. And now dear little children, who may this story read,
To idle, silly flattering words, I pray you ne'er give heed:
Unto an evil counsellor, close heart and ear and eye,
And take a lesson from this tale, of the Spider and the Fly.

Mary Howitt

#37. People believe unbelievable things because it's self-flattering to think that you are intellectually daring enough to accept what others find preposterous.

Christopher Buckley

#38. You're the prettiest thing I've ever seen." "You're looking at my backside," she hissed. "That's hardly flattering, I'll have you-" His

Alix West

#39. Man. God. Roarke.
An interesting and flattering lineup.

J.D. Robb

#40. Lay not that flattering unction to your soul, That not your trespass but my madness speaks.

William Shakespeare

#41. The one thing I've come to figure out is this equation where the more uncomfortable I am, the better I'm going to look. I'm like, "This one really hurts. I must look awesome!" The corsets are uncomfortable, but they are so flattering. No, my waist will never be that small.

Kristin Bauer Van Straten

#42. It's flattering that people think I'm sexy, but it's not the end-all, be-all. The minute I put my self-esteem on what they think I am, I'm screwed, because one day they're not going to think I'm sexy.

Eva Mendes