Flattered Quotes - Page 2

• Women who are either indisputably beautiful, or indisputably ugly, are best flattered upon the score of their understandings.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Beautiful, Women, Understanding

  Lord Chesterfield, David Roberts (2008). “Lord Chesterfield's Letters”, p.92, Oxford University Press

  7 Copiar cita

  Mostrar fuente

• Ser halagado es agradecido, aun cuando sepamos que nuestros elogios no son creídos por quienes los pronuncian; porque prueban, al menos, nuestro poder, y muestran que nuestro favor es valorado, ya que se compra con la mezquindad de la falsedad.

  Samuel Johnson

  Grateful, Favour, Flattery

  Samuel Johnson, Hester Lynch Piozzi, James Boswell (1828). “The Beauties of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: Consisting of Maxims and Observations, Moral, Critical, and Miscellaneous: to which are Now Added Biographical Anecdotes of the Doctor, Selected from the Works of Mrs. Piozzi;--his Life, Recently Published by Mr. Boswell, and Other Authentic Testimonies; Also His Will, and the Sermon He Wrote for the Late Doctor Dodd”, p.181

  7 Copiar cita

  Mostrar fuente

• Women who are either indisputably beautiful, or indisputably ugly, are best flattered upon the score of their understandings; but those who are in a state of mediocrity are best flattered upon their beauty, or at least their graces; for every woman who is not absolutely ugly thinks herself handsome.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Beautiful, Thinking, Grace

  Lord Chesterfield, David Roberts (2008). “Lord Chesterfield's Letters”, p.92, Oxford University Press

  12 Copiar cita

  Mostrar fuente

• I suppose that writers should, in a way, feel flattered by the censorship laws. They show a primitive fear and dread at the fearful magic of print.

  John Mortimer

  Fear, Law, Magic

  John Mortimer (2010). “CLINGING TO THE WRECKAGE”, p.251, Penguin UK

  10 Copiar cita

  Mostrar fuente

• La compañía de mi tarjeta de crédito dice que tengo un saldo pendiente. Me siento halagado.

  Demetri Martin

  Balance, Cards, Credit

  Twitter post from Apr 21, 2012

  9 Copiar cita

  Mostrar fuente

• Flattery is all right so long as you don't inhale.

  Adlai E. Stevenson

  Humility, Long, Flattery

  20 Copiar cita

• Learn that every flatterer Lives at the flattered listeners cost.

  Jean de La Fontaine

  Cost, Flattery, Listeners

  Jean de La Fontaine (1964). “The fables of La Fontaine”

  8 Copiar cita

  Mostrar fuente

• El hecho de que alguien me encuentre sexy es muy, muy halagador, pero ridículo. No me lo creo. Pero me siento halagada. La verdad es que no muevo un dedo para parecer sexy. Nunca.

  Laura Prepon

  Sexy, Believe, Looks

  "TV Q&A: "That '70s Show"'s Laura Prepon". Hollywood.com Interview, www.hollywood.com. February 13, 2007.

  20 Copiar cita

  Mostrar fuente

• La adulación agrada muy generalmente. En primer lugar, el adulador puede pensar que lo que dice es verdad; pero, en segundo lugar, lo piense o no, ciertamente piensa que aquellos a quienes adula son lo suficientemente importantes como para ser adulados.

  Samuel Johnson

  Thinking, May, Firsts

  James Boswell, Samuel Johnson (1824). “The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D., Comprehending an Account of His Studies, and Numerous Works, in Chronological Order: A Series of His Epistolary Correspondence and Conversations with Many Eminent Persons; and Various Original Pieces of His Composition, Never Before Published; the Whole Exhibiting a View of Literature and Literary Men in Great Britain, for Near Half a Century During which He Flourished”, p.339

  10 Copiar cita

  Mostrar fuente

• Mi gran consuelo es que la celebridad temporal que he arrancado al mundo ha sido en contra de todas las opiniones y prejuicios. No he halagado a ningún poder dominante; nunca he ocultado un solo pensamiento que me tentara.

  Lord Byron

  Potencia, comodidad, dientes

  Carta a Thomas Moore, 9 de abril de 1814.

  7 Copiar cita

  Mostrar fuente

• No, no creas que te halago. Pues ¿qué adelanto puedo esperar de ti, que no tienes más rédito que tu buen ánimo para alimentarte y vestirte? ¿Por qué han de ser halagados los pobres?

  William Shakespeare

  Thinking, Advancement, May

  William Shakespeare (2011). “Hamlet”, p.139, Simon and Schuster

  7 Copiar cita

  Mostrar fuente

• Explore, and explore. Be neither chided nor flattered out of your position of perpetual inquiry. Neither dogmatize or accept another's dogmatism.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Motivational, Inquiry, Exploration

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.100, Рипол Классик

  4 Copiar cita

  Mostrar fuente

• ¿Soy una marimacho? No sé usar el ordenador, así que quizá esté un poco fuera de onda. No sé si sentirme halagada o no. Lo de marimacho, ¿está bien? ¿Se puede ser un sexy beanpole?

  Keira Knightley

  Sexy, Use, Computer

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

  4 Copiar cita

  Mostrar fuente

• Los líderes de la Iglesia han sido a menudo Narcisos, adulados y enfermizamente excitados por sus cortesanos. La corte es la lepra del papado.

  Pope Francis

  Líder, Iglesia, Lepra

  11 Copiar cita

• Even though now I'm pretty popular in my country and tennis is the No. 1 sport, and I'm very flattered that the people recognise me and come up and give me compliments, I'm more a person who likes to have privacy and peace.

  Novak Djokovic

  Deportes, País, Gente

  4 Copiar cita

• A fool is in himself the object of pity, until he is flattered.

  Richard Steele

  Fool, Pity, Objects

  "Selectons from Steele's Contributions to the Tatler".

  11 Copiar cita

  Mostrar fuente

• Dios fue tratado como este padre poderoso, errático y bastante punitivo al que hay que apaciguar y alabar. Ya sabes, halagado.

  John Cleese

  Powerful, Father, Erratic

  11 Copiar cita

• I am flattered that they think that many people would enjoy my work. I don't approach any genre a different way than I may approach another one. I treat every role I do like a role worthy of applying whatever kind of tactic, process and talent I have.

  Vin Diesel

  Pensar, Gente, Mayo

  6 Copiar cita

• Como diseñador, te sientes halagado al ver a alguien con uno de tus diseños, ya sea en una alfombra roja o pasando a tu lado en el mercado. Es un subidón maravilloso cada vez.

  Lauren Conrad

  Passing By, Design, Littles

  7 Copiar cita

• Las masas son groseras, cojas, no hechas, perniciosas en sus demandas e influencia, y no necesitan ser aduladas, sino educadas. No deseo concederles nada, sino domesticarlas, taladrarlas, dividirlas y disgregarlas, y sacar individuos de ellas.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Rude, Individuality, Wish

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). "Obras completas Delphi de Ralph Waldo Emerson (Ilustradas)", p.2360, Delphi Classics.

  9 Copiar cita

  Mostrar fuente

• Cuando tenía 49 años, posé para Playboy; me sentí muy halagada de que me lo pidieran. Me sentí muy honrada, en realidad, teniendo en cuenta que la mayoría de las modelos que publican son veinteañeras.

  Joan Collins

  Twenties, Playboy, Considering

  4 Copiar cita

• Of course, we need not be surprised if artistic excellence goes unrecognized on account of being unknown; but there should be the greatest indignation when, as often, good judges are flattered by the charm of social entertainments into an approbation which is a mere a pretence.

  Marco Vitruvio Polio

  Judging, Excellence, Needs

  "Los diez libros de arquitectura". Libro de Marco Vitruvio Polión, Libro III, Prefacio, Sec. 1, c. 15 a.C.

  5 Copiar cita

  Mostrar fuente

• Rememberest the gods, and that they wish not to be flattered, but wish all reasonable beings to be made like themselves; and... rememberest that what does the work of a fig-tree is a fig-tree, and that what does the work of a dog is a dog, and that what does the work of a bee is a bee, and that what does the work of a man is a man.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Dog, Men, Tree

  Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius, Lucius Annaeus Seneca (2016). “Stoic Six Pack: Meditations of Marcus Aurelius, Golden Sayings, Fragments and Discourses of Epictetus, Letters from a Stoic and The Enchiridion”, p.110, Enhanced Media Publishing

  4 Copiar cita

  Mostrar fuente

• Si nunca nos halagáramos a nosotros mismos, tendríamos poco placer.

  François de La Rochefoucauld

  Should Have, Flattery, Pleasure

  4 Copiar cita

• It is a very high mind to which gratitude is not a painful sensation. If you wish to please, you will find it wiser to receive, solicit even, favors, than accord them; for the vanity of the obligor is always flattered, that of the obligee rarely.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, I Barón Lytton

  Gratitude, Vanity, Mind

  4 Copiar cita