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It is happy for you that you possess the talent of flattering with delicacy. May I ask whether these pleasing attentions proceed from the impulse of the moment, or are they the result of previous study?

— Jane Austen

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

I love attention. Maybe my desire for attention is a little too out of control, but I'm very honest.

— Marc Jacobs

Hearing anyone think that I'm any form of sexy or handsome is incredibly flattering.

— John Krasinski

My centre of who I thought I was was never very consciously about being beautiful or attractive - I think I'm one of those people who's actually grown into their looks.

— Harriet Walter

When it comes to beauty, I feel that hanging with people you love, laughing, and doing silly things gets your spirits up. We are always prettier when we are happier.

— Sara Sampaio

Being attractive, it's not something I do consciously. It's incredibly flattering that people think I appeal to women. But that was a gift from my parents.

— Ioan Gruffudd

The delicate balance between modesty and conceit is popularity.

— Max Beerbohm

You can mark in desire the rising of the tide, as the appetite more and more invades the personality, appealing, as it does, not merely to the sensory side of the self, but to its ideal components as well.

— Samuel Alexander

I have an insatiable desire to be the center of attention.

— Howie Mandel

✗Opposing Perspectives

The idea that one might derive satisfaction from his or her successful work, because that work is ingenious, beautiful, or just pleasing, has become ridiculed.

— Niklaus Wirth

Words really flattering are not those which we prepare but those which escape us unthinkingly.

— Ninon de L'Enclos