#flatter

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

— Mason Cooley

#insults #question #raise #same #want

To a poet, silence is an acceptable response, even a flattering one. ↗

— Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

#even #flattering #poet #response #silence

Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. ↗

— Charles Caleb Colton

#form #imitation #sincerest #sincerest form

They who have reasoned ignorantly, or who have aimed at effecting their personal ends by flattering the popular feeling, have boldly affirmed that 'one man is as good as another;' a maxim that is true in neither nature, revealed morals, nor political theory. ↗

— James F. Cooper

#aimed #another #boldly #effecting #ends

I must not say what I truly think, or you will tell me I flatter you-but I can only speak what I feel-and very often I cannot even do that when the feeling is very deep. ↗

— Marie Corelli

#deep #even #feeling #flatter #i

The fool within himself is the object of pity, until he is flattered. ↗

— Richard Steele

#fool #himself #object #pity #until

Republics are created by the virtue, public spirit, and intelligence of the citizens. They fall, when the wise are banished from the public councils, because they dare to be honest, and the profligate are rewarded, because they flatter the people, in order to betray them. ↗

— Joseph Story

#because #betray #citizens #councils #created

Said I was beautiful, did he? He's being paid for treatment, not flattery. ↗

— Lillie Langtry

#being #did #flattery #i #paid

I don't care how stylish something is if it doesn't flatter me. ↗

— Ali Larter

#flatter #how #i #me #something

I was so flattered to be asked to be in the movies - the idea of being paid to act was heady stuff. ↗

— Piper Laurie

#asked #being #flattered #heady #i