Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Caleb Colton

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

Imitation is the sincerest of flattery.

Charles Caleb Colton

Imitation is the highest form of flattery.

Alan Bradley

To be most effective, flattery is always best applied with a trowel.

Carolyn Wells

Invitation is the sincerest flattery.

Charlotte Bronte

I like rudeness a great deal better than flattery.

Benjamin Franklin

Praise to the undeserving is severe satire.

Benjamin Franklin

A flatterer never seems absurd: The flatter'd always takes his word.

Benjamin Franklin

Approve not of him who commends all you say.

Cesare Pavese

Because, to despise money, one must have plenty of it.

John Rhys-Davies

The most despised sector of Hollywood are the writers. A good writer is quickly promoted to a 'concept man' - and then a producer - because he's too valuable to simply be a writer.

Clay Richards

For a governor who signed the despised legislative pay raise and saw his plan to use gambling money to lower property taxes go down in flames, Ed Rendell ought to be called Teflon Ed.

Curtis Granderson

People grow up loving the Yankees and will tell you, and so many people despise the Yankees, and they come from all over the United States.

Samuel Butler

The world will only, in the end, follow those who have despised as well as served it.

Edward Young

Revere thyself, and yet thyself despise

Tony Kushner

My whole life has conspired to bring me to this place, and I can’t despise my whole life.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

No one can be despised by another until he has learned to despise himself.

Georges Bernanos

God knows that we should not despise anything. We must do our best.

Jamie Richardson

We're very flattered by all this attention. By going into Lord & Taylor, we've really gone full circle,

William Shakespeare

But when I tell him he hates flatterers, He says he does, being then most flattered

Dolly Parton

I was so flattered and honored that they liked me so much. It really worked out to be a wonderful friendship,

Uma Thurman

I'm so flattered and touched by your comments.

Ricky Stuart

We can't be too flattered by the result.

Bob Kraft

I am flattered that she is interested in joining us. But, of course, I am only one of 32.

David Cone

Clemens, Seaver, Gibson, Maddux - I just don't see myself in that category. I'm flattered that maybe it's debatable at this point.

Cal Ripken, Jr.

I'm always flattered when someone thinks of me as a potential commissioner of baseball.

Isobelle Carmody

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.