Browsing Topic Best Flattering Quotes

A fool flatters himself, a wise man flatters the fool.

I’m a dark blonde, yes. I dyed my hair blue, then black, when I was 14. I thought the colour was more flattering and matched my skin tone. I don’t think I’d ever change back unless it was for a film.

What really flatters a man is that you think him worth flattering.

It’s very flattering to be remembered as a Bond girl with brains and not just for looking good in a bikini. I was a fan of Sophie Marceau in ‘The World Is Not Enough.’ I think her performance was very underrated.

Listening, not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery.

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

An ad hominem attack against an individual, not against an idea, is highly flattering. It indicates that the person does not have anything intelligent to say about your message.

Being a curvy girl, I’ve always, in the past, dressed just what’s flattering rather than what I actually really want to wear. I’m trying to say that you can wear whatever you want.

This laudable quality is commonly known by the name of Manners and Good-breeding, and consists in a Fashionable Habit, acquir’d by Precept and Example, of flattering the Pride and Selfishness of others, and concealing our own with Judgment and Dexterity.

I was on the cover of a lot of newspapers. I was on the cover of USA Today for every single day for a month. I was on the masthead, so I tend to get recognized a lot, and in weird places. It’s always flattering, and it’s always odd. It’s always at the worst possible time.

Though painting borrows help indeed from colours… it has nothing more wide of its real aim or more remote from its intention than to make a show of colours… to raise a separate and flattering pleasure to the sense.

It’s very strange that people would consider me a fashion muse but it’s also flattering. I try to just be myself, and wear what’s comfortable and makes me feel good.

I find it flattering to be compared to Tige

The less we show our love to a woman, Or please her less, and neglect our duty, The more we trap and ruin her surely, In the flattering toils of philandery.

I always prefer photographing in available light – or Rembrandt-light I like to call it – so you get the natural modulations of the face. It makes a more alive, real, and flattering portrait.

Projecting yourself until everything is talking about you is, of course, a self-flattering form of self-pity

I want friends, not admirers. People who respect me for my character and my deeds, not my flattering smile. The circle around me would be much smaller, but what does that matter, as long as they’re sincere?

For theater, the fashion had to have a certain grandeur that would read on the stage while also flattering the actress. The same thing applies when doing a wedding dress, but the treatments can be more delicate and there can be much more detail.

I suppose my bodily proportions are quite flattering. I’m ripped, doing something I wouldn’t normally do with my body, or having done to it, involving Watson.

Vivienne Westwood makes such beautifully structured clothes that are especially flattering if you are curvy.

Well, to have some teams come at you like Montreal did, it’s definitely flattering, and I think it was good for me to also set a precedent for players like me and how important we can be to teams. That was something I was happy to do as well, you know? Sometimes players like me are maybe overlooked or not looked at as an important piece to the puzzle, but it was something I wanted to prove and wanted to show.

Each man kills the thing he loves.

If someone loves you for what you can do then it’s flattering, but why do you love them? If someone loves you for who you are then they have to know you, which means you have to know them.

Listen, the idea that I might be a fashion soothsayer is very flattering but completely inaccurate.

Everybody’s different, so in order to feel sexy I think you need to have something that fits right, you need the style that looks most flattering on you, and you should just try everything on and figure out what style is for you.

I love ripped jeans! They are flattering. I’m very petite, so I think they make my butt look lovely.

Look, we live in a celebrity culture and sometimes you get caught in the wave and the buzz and a lot of it’s flattering but, you know, one of the things that I try to remind people of is, is that I was in politics as a state senator operating in obscurity for many years. Before that I was a community organizer working in low income communities in Chicago and nobody knew my name then. And so, having involved myself in public service for a pretty long time without getting too much attention, hopefully I can keep some of the attention that I’m getting now in perspective.

If you are flattering a woman, it pays to be a little more subtle. You don’t have to bother with men, they believe any compliment automatically.

I like architectural shapes. You can’t put any shape on any body, except on the runway. In reality, it has to look and feel flattering.

As actors, we need public relations to campaign for our next possible role, and any media promoting our work seems positive in nature; but whether in theater or on a film set, a bad unprofessional photograph at the wrong angle may not be as flattering to some actors, and may be considered a harmful exposure.

It’s always flattering when somebody you really respect and like wants you to be involved in their project – let alone writes a part with your voice in mind.

Each community has a curious and distorted image of itself which is always flattering.

I think a woman is sexy when she’s in nice clothes, flattering clothes. I don’t think that being half-dressed in little half-tops… I don’t find that sexy.

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.

Please not thyself the flattering crowd to hear;’Tis fulsome stuff, to please thy itching ear.Survey thy soul, not what thou does appear,But what thou art.