#flat

The love of one's own sex is precious, for it is neither provoked by vanity nor retained by flattery; it is genuine and sincere. ↗

— Maria Mitchell

#genuine #love #neither #nor #own

I hate careless flattery, the kind that exhausts you in your efforts to believe it. ↗

— Wilson Mizner

#careless #efforts #exhausts #flattery #hate

The more we love our friends, the less we flatter them; it is by excusing nothing that pure love shows itself. ↗

— Moliere

#flatter #friends #itself #less #love

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

#being #being proud #being yourself #clones #flattery

A little flattery will support a man through great fatigue. ↗

— James Monroe

#flattery #great #little #man #support

I never know why shows succeed or don't succeed, which is why I look at it as, 'I'll do the best work that I can', and if the fans and people respond then I'm always really flattered and honored, and if they don't then I'll try and do something next time that they like better. But I have no idea what makes a hit show, I really don't. ↗

— Poppy Montgomery

#best #best work #better #fans #flattered

I always find it flattering when somebody recognizes me. ↗

— Rick Moranis

#find #flattering #i #i always #me

Life is given to you like a flat piece of land and everything has to be done. I hope that when I am finished, my piece of land will be a beautiful garden, so there is a lot of work. ↗

— Jeanne Moreau

#beautiful #done #everything #finished #flat

The unflattering reviews are painful for short periods of time; the badly written ones are deeply, deeply insulting. That reviewer took no time to really read the book. ↗

— Toni Morrison

#book #deeply #insulting #ones #painful

You start way down on a low B flat on the tuba and you have a chromatic scale; you can match the colours all the way up, till you get to the top of the trumpet. ↗

— Gerry Mulligan

#down #flat #get #low #match