#flatter

He who says he hates every kind of flattery, and says it in earnest, certainly does not yet know every kind of flattery. ↗

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

#does #earnest #every #flattery #hates

So you shouldn't really flatter yourself that they want to be your buddy. They don't. Generally. They want you for some reason or other, and you just have to fend that off all the time. ↗

— Kurt Loder

#fend #flatter #generally #just #off

So, I'm the Eighth Wonder of the World. It's flattering and very, very funny. ↗

— Eva Longoria

#flattering #funny #i #very #wonder

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

— James Monroe

#flattery #great #little #man #support

It is useless to give me compliments because I forget them minutes later! ↗

— Geetha Golla

#character #flattery #praise #attitude

I don’t quite know how to respond to people who say that I dance like my genitals are on fire. I usually just blush and brush aside their flattery. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#dance #flattery #funny #funny

Flatterers should be mistrusted, especially when they praise the dead. To seek a place in society is self-serving, but to seek one in history affects everyone. ↗

— Bauvard

#funny #humor #funny

He surprised me by his familiarity with details of movements and battles which I did not suppose had come to his knowledge. As he kept me talking for over half an hour, I flattered myself that what I had to say interested him. ↗

— Henry Villard

#come #details #did #familiarity #flattered

It's been many years since I had such an exemplary vegetable. ↗

— Jane Austen

#pride

He who knows how to flatter also knows how to slander. ↗

— Napoleon Bonaparte

#also #flatter #how #knows #slander