You Flatter Me Too Much Quotes

#1. 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

#2. Our Times, a Brief History: As televisions became flatter, People became rounder.

Demetri Martin

#3. Don't flatter the rich, or appear to willing before the great.

Thomas A Kempis

#4. Don't flatter yourself. It's hard not to notice when fifty drunks are chanting your name.

Jamie McGuire

#5. 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

#6. You will get the most attention from those who hate you. No friend, no admirer and no partner will flatter you with as much curiosity.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#7. As far as I can make out, women's friendships with each other are based on a gush of lies and pretty speeches that mean nothing. You'd think they were all wolves trying to seduce each other the way they flatter and flirt when they're together.

Marilyn Monroe

#8. 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

#9. When people flatter you constantly it is very tempting to think you deserve it.

Ruth Reichl

#10. To accuse the American male of not bathing in Paris is merely to flatter him.

Elaine Dundy

#11. 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

#12. Inexperienced girls flatter themselves with the notion that it is in their power to make a man happy.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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

Franca Storm

#14. We flatter ourselves. Most of the real diversity in evolution has been small-scale. We large things are just flukes - an interesting side branch.

Bill Bryson

#15. Niall Ferguson is an intellectual fraud whose job, for years, has been to impress dumb, rich Americans with his accent and flatter them with his writings.

Alex Pareene

#16. 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

#17. I see this evident, that we willingly accord to piety only the services that flatter our passions.

Michel De Montaigne

#18. Stannis had never learned to soften his speech, to dissemble or flatter; he said what he thought, and those that did not like it could be damned.

George R R Martin

#19. I am not writing to flatter paternal egotism, to echo cant, or prop up humbug; I am merely telling the truth.

Charlotte Bronte

#20. And I think it's because good cons are all based on the victim's need, and the successful con artist is the one, I guess, who can exploit that. I remember reading something about this, that one of the great traits of confidence tricksters is the level that they flatter their victim.

Alfred Molina

#21. All of us should be on guard against beliefs that flatter ourselves. At the very least, we should check such beliefs against facts.

Thomas Sowell

#22. Don't be difficult, Denys," Nell chided. "All women like a little flattery from time to time." "What if they didn't? What if they simply liked themselves and no one needed to bend backwards to flatter them? Wouldn't it all be simpler then?

Paula McLain

#23. Buddha says: "Do not flatter your benefactor!". Let one repeat this saying in a Christian church : it immediately purifies the air of everything Christian.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#24. Of those that spin out trifles and die without a memorial, many flatter themselves with high opinions of their own importance, and imagine that they are every day adding some improvement to human life.

Samuel Johnson

#25. If I could have a Barbie body, which has no cellulite, I totally would. I would like to have a flatter stomach, but that won't happen either. That is never going to happen. No matter how much weight I lose, my stomach, below the belly button, always pooches out.

Holly Madison

#26. I don't flatter myself - I'm not a scientist, I'm not a conservation expert.

Edward Norton

#27. 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

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

William Shakespeare

#29. 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

#30. When you understand this - and you should because "what hast thou that thou didst not receive?" - you will not flatter yourself on the one hand and on the other hand you will not carry yourself with the thought of resigning from the ministry when you are insulted, reproached, or persecuted.

Martin Luther

#31. Do not flatter yourselves: if you go to places of worship merely to look about you or to hear music, you are not worshipping God.

Charles Spurgeon

#32. Let no one flatter himself; of himself he is Satan. Let man take sin, which is his own, and leave righteousness with God.

Saint Augustine