#flatter

It's my uniform. Everyone in my company wears it." "It's hideous." Rose felt her hackles rise. The neon green uniform was hideous, but she didn't appreciate him pointing it out. She opened her mouth. "Yet despite it, you look lovely," he said. "Flattery will get you nowhere," she told him. "It's not flattery," he said coldly. "Flattery requires exaggeration. I'm merely stating a fact. You're a beautiful woman wearing an ugly sack of unnatural color. ↗

— Ilona Andrews

#uniforms #beauty

The flattery is nice, but awards don't add up to writing quality songs. ↗

— Chantal Kreviazuk

#awards #flattery #nice #quality #songs

So I'm one of the few celebrities that got to do a repeat performance on 'The Simpsons,' which I'm very flattered by. ↗

— Al Yankovic

#few #flattered #got #i #performance

Do you know what that’s like? How good it feels? For once in my life, someone wants me. ↗

— Brynna Gabrielson

#life

I think that people with differing points of view find common ground in 'Modern Family' is very flattering, and I'm appreciative of that. ↗

— Steven Levitan

#common #common ground #differing #family #find

I don't flatter myself - I'm not a scientist, I'm not a conservation expert. ↗

— Edward Norton

#expert #flatter #i #myself #scientist

I don't know if I'm a heartthrob or if I want to be one! I heard that I get the most fan mail. It's very flattering, and lovely to be popular with the public. ↗

— Christopher Parker

#fan mail #flattering #get #heard #heartthrob

The fact that anyone would find me sexy is very, very flattering, but ridiculous. I so don't believe it. But I'm flattered. Truth is, I don't lift a finger to look sexy. Ever. ↗

— Laura Prepon

#believe #ever #fact #find #finger

A woman's flattery may inflate a man's head a little; but her criticism goes straight to his heart, and contracts it so that it can never again hold quite as much love for her. ↗

— Helen Rowland

#contracts #criticism #flattery #goes #head

Sometimes I know the meaning of a word but am tired of it and feel the need for an unfamiliar, especially precise or poetic term, perhaps one with a nuance that flatters my readership's exquisite sensitivity. ↗

— William Safire

#especially #exquisite #feel #flatters #i