#flatter

Between flattery and admiration there often flows a river of contempt. ↗

— Minna Antrim

#between #contempt #flattery #flows #often

Everyone must accept that we will age and age is not always flattering. ↗

— Amitabh Bachchan

#age #always #everyone #flattering #must

For all of those willing to help me start a family, I am flattered. I will let you know when I need your help. ↗

— Paula Abdul

#am #flattered #help #i #i am

Confining marine animals to tanks and separating them from their families and their natural surroundings, just so people can watch them swim in endless circles, teaches us far more about humans than it does about animals - and the lesson is not a flattering one. ↗

— Pamela Anderson

#circles #confining #does #endless #families

To flatter and follow others, without being flattered and followed in turn, is but a state of half enjoyment. ↗

— Jane Austen

#enjoyment #flatter #flattered #follow #followed

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

#attentions #delicacy #flattering #happy #i

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

#counsel #difference #flatterer #friend #giveth

Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt, not swallowed. ↗

— Josh Billings

#cologne #flattery #like #swallowed #water

Once again our cricketers have flattered to deceive in Australia. ↗

— Ted Dexter

#australia #cricketers #deceive #flattered #once

Although a skillful flatterer is a most delightful companion if you have him all to yourself, his taste becomes very doubtful when he takes to complimenting other people. ↗

— Charles Dickens

#becomes #companion #delightful #doubtful #flatterer