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Gossip is what you say about the objects of flattery when they aren't present.


P. J. O'Rourke


#flattery #gossip #objects #present #say

I once had a rose named after me and I was very flattered. But I was not pleased to read the description in the catalogue: no good in a bed, but fine up against a wall.


Eleanor Roosevelt


#against #bed #catalogue #description #fine

Sometimes I know the meaning of a word but am tired of it and feel the need for an unfamiliar, especially precise or poetic term, perhaps one with a nuance that flatters my readership's exquisite sensitivity.


William Safire


#especially #exquisite #feel #flatters #i

I don't flatter myself with much dependence upon the present disposition of the Eastern Indians, who are many ways liable to be drawn into a rupture with us by the artifices of the French, their own weakness and the influence which the French Missionary Priests have over them.


William Shirley


#dependence #disposition #drawn #eastern #flatter

Do not let a flattering woman coax and wheedle you and deceive you; she is after your barn.


Hesiod


#after #barn #coax #deceive #flattering

I'm starting to see players copy what I do. I'm flattered.


Dennis Rodman


#flattered #i #i do #players #see

The love of their country is with them only a mode of flattering its master; as soon as they think that master can no longer hear, they speak of everything with a frankness which is the more startling because those who listen to it become responsible.


Marquis De Custine


#become #country #everything #flattering #frankness

I earnestly wish to point out in what true dignity and human happiness consists. I wish to persuade women to endeavor to acquire strength, both of mind and body, and to convince them that the soft phrases, susceptibility of heart, delicacy of sentiment, and refinement of taste, are almost synonymous with epithets of weakness, and that those beings are only the objects of pity, and that kind of love which has been termed its sister, will soon become objects of contempt.


Mary Wollstonecraft


#contempt #dignity #double-standards #empowerment #equality

You can always draw as well as you know how to. I flatter myself that I feel more than I express on canvas; but I know that is not so.


William Morris Hunt


#canvas #draw #express #feel #flatter

And they kind of left to find a guitar player at the very end, so you know, I don't really take it as any slight that I wasn't able to play on the record. It's flattering just to play with them period.


James Iha


#any #end #find #flattering #guitar






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