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There never was a woman who did not prefer an oblique compliment to a straight truth - if the latter were unflattering. Minna Antrim | top
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To flatter and follow others, without being flattered and followed in turn, is but a state of half enjoyment. Jane Austen | top
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There is as much difference between the counsel that a friend giveth, and that a man giveth himself, as there is between the counsel of a friend and of a flatterer. For there is no such flatterer as is a man's self. Francis Bacon | top
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Imitation is flattery, and The Hills Have Eyes is a classic. Michael Berryman | top
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The flattery of posterity is not worth much more than contemporary flattery, which is worth nothing. Jorge Luis Borges | top
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They who have reasoned ignorantly, or who have aimed at effecting their personal ends by flattering the popular feeling, have boldly affirmed that 'one man is as good as another;' a maxim that is true in neither nature, revealed morals, nor political theory. James F. Cooper | top
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You are always flattered when big clubs are interested in you. Rio Ferdinand | top
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Flattery in courtship is the highest insolence, for whilst it pretends to bestow on you more than you deserve, it is watching an opportunity to take from you what you really have. Sarah Fielding | top
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Every flatterer lives at the expense of him who listens to him. Jean de La Fontaine | top
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I am hoping, though, that many of them have kids, who, when they have a moment to take a break from their iPods, Internet, or Google, will explain to their parents running the country just how the world is being flattened. Thomas Friedman | top
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Two things are going on at the same time with the flattening of the world: The relentless quest for efficiency is squeezing some of the fat out of life. Thomas Friedman | top
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People may flatter themselves just as much by thinking that their faults are always present to other people's minds, as if they believe that the world is always contemplating their individual charms and virtues. Elizabeth Gaskell | top
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It'd be disingenuous to say I don't like attention - I'm an actor for God's sake - and it's flattering and all, but attention was never my big goal. I just like to work and have a good time. Paul Giamatti | top
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Well, you know, when people say stuff about you, it's always really flattering. But does it mean anything to me? It's not really real to me; there's no reality to it. Paul Giamatti | top
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It's flattering to make a picture which becomes a classic within 10 years; it's not so flattering, however, when people get the impression it's the only picture you've ever made. Robert Hamer | top
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Do not let a flattering woman coax and wheedle you and deceive you; she is after your barn. Hesiod | top
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Flattery is like chewing gum. Enjoy it but don't swallow it. Hank Ketcham | top
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The flattery is nice, but awards don't add up to writing quality songs. Chantal Kreviazuk | top
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I hate careless flattery, the kind that exhausts you in your efforts to believe it. Wilson Mizner | top
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The more we love our friends, the less we flatter them; it is by excusing nothing that pure love shows itself. Moliere | top
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Imitation is the highest form of flattery, but clones kind of get it wrong because we are promoting individuality and being proud of being yourself. Brian Molko | top
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Sheer flattery got me into the theater. Flattery always works with me, particularly the flattery of women. Carroll O'Connor | top
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Hope is a flatterer, but the most upright of all parasites; for she frequents the poor man's hut, as well as the palace of his superior. William Shenstone | top
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More people are flattered into virtue than bullied out of vice. Robert Smith Surtees | top
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This flattery has been rather slow in coming. I think all of sudden late in life now I'm getting some credit for what I've done. Which is gratifying, but it's kind of a little late. Jack Vance | top
