#flatter

While being called beautiful is extremely flattering, I would much rather be noticed for my work as an actress. ↗

— Halle Berry

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Action is consolatory. It is the enemy of thought and the friend of flattering illusions. ↗

— Joseph Conrad

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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

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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

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Sheer flattery got me into the theater. Flattery always works with me, particularly the flattery of women. ↗

— Carroll O'Connor

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Gossip is what you say about the objects of flattery when they aren't present. ↗

— P. J. O'Rourke

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I once had a rose named after me and I was very flattered. But I was not pleased to read the description in the catalogue: no good in a bed, but fine up against a wall. ↗

— Eleanor Roosevelt

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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

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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

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Were I to flatter myself with the possibility of success in such combat, it would indeed be presumption. ↗

— Anne Seward

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