“ What really flatters a man is that you think him worth flattering. ”
- George Bernard Shaw- Copy
- 505
“ Every man has inside himself a parasitic being who is acting not at all to his advantage. ”
- William Burroughs- Copy
- 1.6K
“ A breath thou art, Servile to all the skyey influences. - Measure for Measure. Act iii. Sc. 1. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
- 3.1K
“ I find America falling in love with a TV show flattering and interesting, but at the same time a little sad. ”
- David Schwimmer- Copy
- 3.2K
“ I always wear my sweater back-to-front; it is so much more flattering. ”
- Diana Vreeland- Copy
- 1.7K
“ But if you do not do what is right, sin is crouching at your door. It desires to have you, but you must master it. ”
- Bible- Copy
- 1.7K
“ What we call love is the desire to awaken and to keep awake in another's body, heart and mind, the responsibility of flattering, in our place, the self of which we are not very certain. ”
- Paul Geraldy- Copy
- 76
“ To flattering lightning our feign'd smiles conform,Which, back'd with thunder, do but gild a storm. ”
- John Dryden- Copy
- 378
“ Peace without Justice is a low estate, — A coward cringing to an iron Fate!But Peace through Justice is the great ideal, — We'll pay the price of war to make it real. ”
- Henry Van Dyke- Copy
- 2.6K
“ A flattering painter, who made it his care To draw men as they ought to be, not as they are. ”
- Oliver Goldsmith- Copy
- 1.5K
“ The swan murmurs sweet strains with a flattering tongue, itself the singer of its own dirge. ”
- Marcus Valerius Martial- Copy
- 3.9K
“ Every man has inside himself a parasitic being who is acting not at all to his advantage. ”
- William S. Burroughs- Copy
- 3.8K
“ The mass of mankind are evidently slavish in their tastes, preferring a life suitable to beasts. ”
- Aristotle- Copy
- 858
“ If men make war in slavish obedience to rules, they will fail. ”
- Ulysses S. Grant- Copy
- 2.4K
“ Poetry and consumption are the most flattering of diseases. ”
- William Shenstone- Copy
- 2.3K
“ With her much fair speech she caused him to yield, with the flattering of her lips she forced him. ”
- Bible- Copy
- 1.2K
“ He's either dead, or he's incapacitated, or he's healthy and cowering in some tunnel someplace trying to avoid being caught. What else can one say? ”
- Donald Rumsfeld- Copy
- 2.1K
“ If people have split views about your work, I think it's flattering. I'd rather have them feel something about it than dismiss it. ”
- Stephen Sondheim- Copy
- 1.1K
“ Do not let a flattering woman coax and wheedle you and deceive you; she is after your barn. ”
- Hesiod- Copy
- 3.8K
“ A slavish bondage to parents cramps every faculty of the mind. ”
- Mary Shelley- Copy
- 1.4K
“ 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 the result of previous study? ”
- Jane Austen- Copy
- 40
“ Bridget Jones is part of literary lore now and actually to be a part of it is enormously flattering. ”
- Colin Firth- Copy
- 3.4K
“ Often times I'm confronted with a quote that I don't remember saying. So, on one hand it's very flattering, it is just so surreal. ”
- Will Ferrell- Copy
- 3.8K
“ A man sufficiently gifted with humor is in small danger of succumbing to flattering delusions about himself, because he cannot help perceiving what a pompous ass he would become if he did. ”
- Konrad Lorenz- Copy
- 3.2K
“ But it is hard to know them from friends, they are so obsequious and full of protestations; for a wolf resembles a dog, so doth a flatterer a friend. ”
- Sir Walter Raleigh- Copy
- 461
“ Those men are most apt to be obsequious and conciliating abroad, who are under the discipline of shrews at home. ”
- Washington Irving- Copy
- 465
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