Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charlotte Bronte

I like rudeness a great deal better than flattery.

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.

Charles Lederer

Flattery'll get you anywhere.

Carroll O'Connor

Sheer flattery got me into the theater. Flattery always works with me, particularly the flattery of women.

Benjamin Franklin

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

Thucydides

Men naturally despise those who court them, but respect those who do not give way to them.

Arthur Conan

Well, said she, after a pause, ""if you despise my love, I must see what can be done with fear. You smile, but the day will come when you will come screaming to me for pardon.

Steven Heighton

I'm supportive of practical nationalism, like the kind we need in Canada to avoid being absorbed into a much larger country. The kind of nationalism I despise as destructive and infantile is really just tribalism writ large.

Graydon Carter

I really don't despise anyone. But there is a list of a half dozen people I would prefer never to hear from or see again.

Martin H. Fischer

Don't despise empiric truth. Lots of things work in practice for which the laboratory has never found proof.

Bible Bible

Likewise also these filthy dreamers defile the flesh, despise dominion, and speak evil of dignities.

Helen Oyeyemi

I don't despise 'Don Quixote,' but it is a book I don't... get. I'll have to come back it. Maybe there'll be a gateway story that opens it up for me; that happened for me with 'Paradise Lost' and the 'His Dark Materials' trilogy.

Cesare Pavese

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

Edward Young

Revere thyself, and yet thyself despise

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.

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.

Uma Thurman

I'm so flattered and touched by your comments.

Ricky Stuart

We can't be too flattered by the result.

Dolly Parton

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

Cal Ripken, Jr.

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

Bob Kraft

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

William Shakespeare

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

Macy Gray

I'm really flattered by all of you who voted for me.