#flatter

You don't want to be flattered and become big-headed by getting awards. But, well, I am. ↗

— Johnny Vegas

#awards #become #flattered #getting #i

It'd be disingenuous to say I don't like attention - I'm an actor for God's sake - and it's flattering and all, but attention was never my big goal. I just like to work and have a good time. ↗

— Paul Giamatti

#attention #big #disingenuous #flattering #goal

Well, you know, when people say stuff about you, it's always really flattering. But does it mean anything to me? It's not really real to me; there's no reality to it. ↗

— Paul Giamatti

#always #anything #does #flattering #know

We often choose a friend as we do a mistress - for no particular excellence in themselves, but merely from some circumstance that flatters our self-love. ↗

— William Hazlitt

#circumstance #excellence #flatters #friend #merely

Well, I'm in my 60s now. I finally look it, I think. People until I was 60 would always say they thought I looked younger, which I think, without flattering myself, I did, but I think I certainly have, as George Orwell says people do after a certain age, the face they deserve. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#age #always #certain #certain age #certainly

I generally only paint people I know, I'm not a flatterer really. ↗

— David Hockney

#generally #i #know #only #paint

Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

#become #come #courtesy #disagreeable #flatter

I hate to hear you talk about all women as if they were fine ladies instead of rational creatures. None of us want to be in calm waters all our lives. ↗

— Jane Austen

#double-standards #empowerment #equality #feminism #flattery

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

— Catherine Bell

#every #flattering #i #marine #met

We should keep silent about those in power; to speak well of them almost implies flattery; to speak ill of them while they are alive is dangerous, and when they are dead is cowardly. ↗

— Jean de la Bruyere

#alive #almost #cowardly #dangerous #dead