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Quotes About Flattering

There are some tremendous actors in the U.K. who have been knighted, and I've spent much of my life admiring many of them, like Laurence Olivier. So it's very flattering to be in their company.
~ Ian Mckellen
But it was too interesting, too new, too flattering, too deeply comforting to resist, it was a liberation to be in love and say so, and she could only let herself go deeper.
~ Ian Mcewan
Yes, black is slimming, but it's not always youthful. The right tone of red, however, is flattering on all women.
~ Twiggy
My wife thinks I'm a narcissist, but I just think it's hilarious going on YouTube and seeing these covers. There are so many of them - literally hundreds! It's flattering.
~ Charles Kelley
Finding tricks to create flattering body shape is the key to style.
~ Stacy London
When you do a film, all you want is to make the best film possible. You don't think about Oscars. But it's really flattering. Please, bring it on!
~ Demian Bichir
With social media, I think it becomes a little more intrusive. People have more access to you. It's obviously very flattering, all the love and affection that you get, and then there's also the downside of it: sometimes things don't go your way.
~ Fawad Khan
It's always flattering when someone covers a song. I mean, when you're a young band, and you're unsigned - to think that someday people would want to cover one of your songs - it's just mind-blowing.
~ Nuno Bettencourt
What we call love is the desire to awaken and to keep awake in another's body heart and mind the responsibility of flattering in our place the self of which we are not very certain.
~ Paul Geraldy
Beauty, by way of fashion, has to do with confidence, with flattering silhouettes, with patterns, with proper fit for body type, and with an abundance of self-love!
~ Mary Lambert
Action is consolatory. It is the enemy of thought and the friend of flattering illusions.
~ Joseph Conrad
0 summer friendship, whose flat-tering leaves shadowed us in our prosperity, With the least gust, drop off in the autumn of adversity.
~ Philip Massinger
In publishing 'JFK: Reckless Youth' almost twenty years ago, I had gotten into trouble myself with the Kennedys. Not because of my portrait of JFK - which was highly laudatory - but because I had described his parents, Joseph P. Kennedy and Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy, in less-than-flattering terms.
~ Nigel Hamilton
Yes, but knee pants are so much more flattering. You can see my legs." You want people to see your legs?" I have very nice legs!" We both paused to admire them for a moment.
~ Karen Chance
an ad hominen attack against an intellectual, not against an idea, is highly flattering. It indicates that the person does not have anything intelligent to say about your message.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
An ad hominem attack against an intellectual, not against an idea, is highly flattering. It indicates that the person does not have anything intelligent to say about your message.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Brows more or less can sculpt the face and minimize features you find less flattering.
~ Anastasia Soare
Before 'Twilight,' occasionally I would get the 'Hey are you that girl from that movie?' but no one knew my first and last name. The fans of the saga are amazing, and it's very flattering.
~ Nikki Reed
One thing I would always say is speculation is always flattering because if someone is talking about you or linking you to a job then it's something that is flattering.
~ Chris Hughton
Again, redundant—as are 'flattering parasite' and the others.
~ Neal Stephenson
It is the truth," said Oda-sensei. "Sometimes the truth is flattering.
~ Neal Stephenson
It was very flattering when Manolo Blahnik named a shoe after me.
~ Sarah Jessica Parker
Interest from Bayern or Man Utd? It is greatly flattering to hear those names, and I even ask myself if that is really about me.
~ Raphael Varane
I was really uncomfortable with fame. I mean, it's lovely and flattering, and you enjoy all the razzmatazz and being flown around, but when people suddenly call you a star, you think, 'I'm not a star, I'm just playing a star role.'
~ Tim Pigott-Smith