Flattering Quotes

“In Paris, where raillery is so quick to throw emotion out the window, silence, in a roomful of clever people after a story, is the most flattering of all marks of success”

“The true business of the philosopher, though not flattering to his vanity, is merely to ascertain, arrange and condense the facts.”

“I can understand backward patriarchal reasoning coming from a male, but from a woman - and of all people, a leader of women? It says something profound about leadership - and, if anything - what it says about followers is not very flattering at all.”

“But sooner or later we find that not everything is to our liking in this book. It starts out sweet to our taste; and then we find it doesn't sit well with us at all, it becomes bitter in our stomachs. Finding ourselves in this book is most pleasant, flattering even, and then we find that the book is not written to flatter us, but to involve us in a reality, God's reality, that doesn't cater to our fantasies of ourselves.”

“Outbreaks of unvarnished truths in the backyard of our true self can be very precious and inspiring, even though we might inconsistently be tempted to give in to the exhilarating perfume of fables and fairy tales or to flattering praise and fiction. ("The day the mirror was talking back")”

“You know when someone's over-flattering you in a way. You smile but you can't believe it.”

“Do not let a flattering woman coax and wheedle you and deceive you she is after your barn.”

“Imitations are not flattering. Nobody likes feeling like an option,”

“It will be worth it if I am remembered, if not flatteringly, then at least with some small amount of accuracy.”