Top 25 Flattering Quotes of 42

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

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

Ravi Zacharias

Humble, Able, Flattering

Ravi Zacharias (2005). “Recapture the Wonder”, p.118, Thomas Nelson Inc

Everyone must accept that we will age and age is not always flattering.

Amitabh Bachchan

Age, Accepting, Flattering

It's my custom to say something flattering to begin with so I shall be excused if I put my foot in it later on.

Prince Philip

Feet, Classic, Flattering

Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.

Edmund Burke

Flattery, Giver, Flattering

Edmund Burke (1790). “Reflections on the Revolution in France: And on the Proceedings in Certain Societies in London Relative to that Event. In a Letter Intended to Have Been Sent to a Gentleman in Paris”, p.9

An image has stuck for most of my career and it isn't flattering.

Robbie Fowler

Careers, Stuck, Flattering

Robbie Fowler (2009). “Fowler: My Autobiography”, p.106, Pan Macmillan

While being called beautiful is extremely flattering, I would much rather be noticed for my work as an actress.

Halle Berry

Beautiful, Actresses, Flattering

Keep your jacket buttoned. Always. It's just really flattering—it will take pounds off you.

Tom Ford

Pounds, Flattering, Jackets

Words really flattering are not those which we prepare but those which escape us unthinkingly.

Ninon de L'Enclos

Flattering

I love men that love women. Morgan Freeman, who I worked with on 'RED,' was very flattering to me. But he is flattering to all women. He is a woman-charmer.

Helen Mirren

Men, Red, Flattering

To a poet, silence is an acceptable response, even a flattering one.

Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

Silence, Poetic, Flattering

"Paris From My Window". Book by Sidonie Gabrielle Colette, 1944.

To be told you've won a MacArthur fellowship is very flattering and gratifying personally.

David Simon

Fellowship, Macarthur, Flattering

"The Wire creator David Simon wins 'genius' grant" by Alison Flood, www.theguardian.com. September 28, 2010.

Bridget Jones is part of literary lore now and actually to be a part of it is enormously flattering.

Colin Firth

Bridget Jones, Flattering

Poetry and consumption are the most flattering of diseases.

William Shenstone

Poetry, Disease, Flattering

William Shenstone (1868). “The Poetical Works of William Shenstone: With Life, Critical Dissertation and Explanatory Notes”, p.18

I always find it flattering when somebody recognizes me.

Rick Moranis

Flattering

So, I'm the Eighth Wonder of the World. It's flattering and very, very funny.

Eva Longoria

World, Wonder, Flattering

I always wear my sweater back-to-front; it is so much more flattering.

Diana Vreeland

Fashion, Sweaters, Flattering

Almost every Marine I've met says I portray a Marine dead-on, which is really, really flattering.

Catherine Bell

Marine, Mets, Flattering

"Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

The scoreline is a bit flattering really.

Kenny Dalglish

Flattering, Bits

"Steven Gerrard on the spot as Liverpool progress against Oldham" by Andy Hunter, www.theguardian.com. January 6, 2012.

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

Jude Deveraux

Flattering

Jude Deveraux (2012). “High Tide”, p.88, Simon and Schuster

Say less than the other fellow and listen more than you talk; for when a man's listening he isn't telling on himself and he's flattering the fellow who is.

George Horace Lorimer

Men, Listening, Flattering

George Horace Lorimer (2008). “Letters from A Self-Made Merchant to His Son (EasyRead Super Large 20pt Edition)”, p.51, ReadHowYouWant.com