#flatter

The flattery of posterity is not worth much more than contemporary flattery, which is worth nothing. ↗

— Jorge Luis Borges

#flattery #more #much #nothing #posterity

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

#coming #credit #done #flattery #getting

I don't call you handsome, sir, though I love you most dearly: far too dearly to flatter you. Don't flatter me. ↗

— Charlotte Bronte

#dearly #far #flatter #handsome #i

I trust it will not be giving away professional secrets to say that many readers would be surprised, perhaps shocked, at the questions which some newspaper editors will put to a defenseless woman under the guise of flattery. ↗

— Kate Chopin

#defenseless #editors #flattery #giving #guise

You don't want to be flattered and become big-headed by getting awards. But, well, I am. ↗

— Johnny Vegas

#awards #become #flattered #getting #i

Action is consolatory. It is the enemy of thought and the friend of flattering illusions. ↗

— Joseph Conrad

#enemy #flattering #friend #illusions #thought

The scoreline is a bit flattering really. ↗

— Kenny Dalglish

#flattering #really

It would be flattering to call it a modern Dirty Harry, but I think this film deals more with the loss of his wife than the traditional revenge vigilante films. ↗

— Vin Diesel

#deals #dirty #film #films #flattering

Everyone likes flattery; and when you come to Royalty you should lay it on with a trowel. ↗

— Benjamin Disraeli

#everyone #flattery #lay #likes #royalty

Every flatterer lives at the expense of him who listens to him. ↗

— Jean de La Fontaine

#expense #flatterer #him #listens #lives