Flattering Quotes - Page 11

• Satan was a blunderer ... who made a stupendous failure. If he had succeeded, we should all have been worshipping him, and his portrait would have been more flattering.

  George Eliot

  Portraits, Satan, Made

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.1550, Delphi Classics

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• Say less than the other fellow and listen more than you talk; for when a man's listening he isn't telling on himself and he's flattering the fellow who is.

  George Horace Lorimer

  Men, Listening, Fellows

  George Horace Lorimer (2008). “Letters from A Self-Made Merchant to His Son (EasyRead Super Large 20pt Edition)”, p.51, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• The encomium of one incapable of flattery is indeed flattering.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Flattery, Incapable

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1926). “The Complete Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley: Notes on Shelley's correspondents. Letters, 1803 to 1812”

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• Do not give alms promiscuously. Select the unworthy poor and make them happy. To give to the deserving is a duty, but to help the improvident, drinking class is clear generosity, so that the donor has a right to be warmed by a selfish pride and count on a most flattering obituary.

  George Ade

  Selfish, Drinking, Pride

  George Ade (1960). “The America of George Ade, 1866-1944: Fables, Short Stories, Essays”, New York, Putnam [1960]

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• Look, we live in a celebrity culture and sometimes you get caught in the wave and the buzz and a lot of it's flattering but, you know, one of the things that I try to remind people of is, is that I was in politics as a state senator operating in obscurity for many years. Before that I was a community organizer working in low income communities in Chicago and nobody knew my name then. And so, having involved myself in public service for a pretty long time without getting too much attention, hopefully I can keep some of the attention that I'm getting now in perspective.

  Barack Obama

  Names, Years, Perspective

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• This laudable quality is commonly known by the name of Manners and Good-breeding, and consists in a Fashionable Habit, acquir'd by Precept and Example, of flattering the Pride and Selfishness of others, and concealing our own with Judgment and Dexterity.

  Bernard de Mandeville

  Pride, Names, Quality

  Bernard de Mandeville (1723). “The Fable of the Bees”, p.37, Jazzybee Verlag

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• It's always flattering when somebody you really respect and like wants you to be involved in their project - let alone writes a part with your voice in mind.

  Chris Messina

  Writing, Voice, Mind

  "Chris Messina, ‘Celeste And Jesse Forever’ Star, On His Crazy Year". Interview with Christopher Rosen, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 3, 2012.

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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

  Thinking, Views, People

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

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• Now it is necessary to court her, and win her, and put on this clean dressing gown, and cut my various nails, and drink something that will kill the millions of germs in my mouth, and say something flattering, and be witty and bonny, and hale and kinky, all just to ease this wrinkle in the groin. It seems a high price.

  Donald Barthelme

  Witty, Cutting, Winning

  "Snow White (play)". "The Teachings of Don. B: Satires, Parodies, Fables, Illustrated Stories, and Plays of Donald Barthelme". Book by Donald Barthelme, p. 309, 1992.

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• My fashion advice is to have a flattering mirror and then forget about it.

  Vivienne Westwood

  Fashion, Mirrors, Advice

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• For A to sit down and think, What shall I do? is commonplace; but to think what B ought to do is interesting, romantic, moral, self-flattering, and public-spirited all at once. It satisfies a great number of human weaknesses at once. To go on and plan what a whole class of people ought to do is to feel one's self a power on earth, to win a public position, to clothe one's self in dignity. Hence we have an unlimited supply of reformers, philanthropists, humanitarians, and would-be managers-in-general of society.

  William Graham Sumner

  Thinking, Winning, Class

  William Graham Sumner (1903). “What Social Classes Owe to Each Other”, p.97, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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• If you are flattering a woman, it pays to be a little more subtle. You don't have to bother with men, they believe any compliment automatically.

  Alan Ayckbourn

  Women, Believe, Littles

  Alan Ayckbourn (1988). “The Norman Conquests: A Trilogy of Plays”, p.199, Grove Press

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• It's my custom to say something flattering to begin with so I shall be excused if I put my foot in it later on.

  Prince Philip

  Feet, Classic, Customs

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• But I also think when we embark on intimate relationships, we make a basic human promise to be decent, to hold a flattering mirror up to each other, to be respectful as we explore each other.

  Lena Dunham

  Thinking, Mirrors, Intimate Relationships

  Lena Dunham (2014). “Not That Kind of Girl: A Young Woman Tells You What She's "Learned"”, p.61, Random House

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• Black is the most slimming of all Colors. It is the most flattering. You can wear black at any Time. You can wear it at any age. You can wear it for almost any occasion. I could write a book about black.

  Christian Dior

  Book, Writing, Color

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• There is something about a well-fitted modern jacket that feels like armor. If it's cut well, it adds a dose of cool to anything you wear it with and does the heavy lifting when it comes to creating a flattering shape.

  Stacy London

  Cutting, Creating, Doe

  Stacy London (2012). “The Truth About Style Deluxe”, p.49, Penguin

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• But the most deplorable effect of all, is that diminution of attachment and reverence, which steals into the hearts of the people, towards a political system which betrays so many marks of infirmity, and disappoints so many of their flattering hopes. No government, any more than an individual, will long be respected, without being truly respectable; nor be truly respectable, without possessing a certain portion of order and stability.

  James Madison

  Heart, Government, Attachment

  Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay (2015). “The Federalist Papers: A Collection of Essays Written in Favour of the New Constitution”, p.306, Coventry House Publishing

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• A flattering painter, who made it his care To draw men as they ought to be, not as they are.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Men, Care, Made

  Oliver Goldsmith (1856). “The Works of Oliver Goldsmith: Comprising His Poems, Comedies, Essays, and Vicar of Wakefield”, p.28

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• An ad hominem attack against an individual, not against an idea, is highly flattering. It indicates that the person does not have anything intelligent to say about your message.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Intelligent, Ideas, Doe

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• It's very flattering to be remembered as a Bond girl with brains and not just for looking good in a bikini. I was a fan of Sophie Marceau in 'The World Is Not Enough.' I think her performance was very underrated.

  Eva Green

  Girl, Thinking, Brain

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• Projecting yourself until everything is talking about you is, of course, a self-flattering form of self-pity

  Aleksandar Hemon

  Self, Talking, Pity

  Aleksandar Hemon (2013). “The Book of My Lives”, p.208, Macmillan

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• The only way to success in American public life lies in flattering and kowtowing to the mob

  H. L. Mencken

  Lying, Way, Public Life

  H. L. Mencken (2009). “Prejudices: Third Series”, p.29, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Asking, ‘If there is no God, what is the purpose of life?’ is like asking, ‘If there is no master, whose slave will I be?’ If your purpose of life is to submit as a slave, then your meaning comes from flattering the ego of a person whom you should detest.

  Dan Barker

  Ego, Life Is Like, Purpose

  Dan Barker (2011). “The Good Atheist: Living a Purpose-filled Life Without God”, p.29, Ulysses Press

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• Keep your jacket buttoned. Always. It's just really flattering—it will take pounds off you.

  Tom Ford

  Pounds, Jackets

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• Flattery and insults raise the same question: What do you want?

  Mason Cooley

  Want, Flattery, Insult

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