Prince Philip
Royalty
"It's my custom to say something flattering to begin with so I shall be excused if I put my foot in it later on."
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Flattering
42 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Edmund Burke
Philosopher, Politician
"Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver."
Tom Ford
Fashion Designer
"Keep your jacket buttoned. Always. It's just really flattering—it will take pounds off you."
David Simon
Television Producer
"To be told you've won a MacArthur fellowship is very flattering and gratifying personally."
Diana Vreeland
Fashion Editor
"I always wear my sweater back-to-front; it is so much more flattering."
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"Almost every Marine I've met says I portray a Marine dead-on, which is really, really flattering."
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"To a poet, silence is an acceptable response, even a flattering one."
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"The encomium of one incapable of flattery is indeed flattering."
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"It's very flattering to feel like you actually helped create a sub-genre."
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"I still get recognized. It's flattering, but it can be uncomfortable. Maybe because it only seems to happen when I'm looking and feeling crappy."
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"When someone really respects and admires us as musicians to the extent that they want to work with us, it's really flattering."
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"One can also be undignified and flattering toward a virtue."
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