The true business of the philosopher, though not flattering to his vanity, is merely to ascertain, arrange and condense the facts.

Nice words and nice appearance doesn’t conclude that someone is nice, i believe that the nicer you look, the more deceptive you appear.

Nobody wants to know how you feel, yet, they want you to do what they feel.

In Paris, where raillery is so quick to throw emotion out the window, silence, in a roomful of clever people after a story, is the most flattering of all marks of success

It was very flattering when Manolo Blahnik named a shoe after me.

The scoreline is a bit flattering really.

Everyone must accept that we will age and age is not always flattering.