#flatter

A president aiming for 'Great' or 'Near Great' status must do more. He must give lots of interviews, make records accessible, and heap the flattery on academia - each of which Mr. Bush has signally failed to do. ↗

— Thomas Frank

#accessible #aiming #bush #each #failed

Imitation is the sincerest flattery. ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

#imitation #sincerest

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

I hate careless flattery, the kind that exhausts you in your efforts to believe it. ↗

— Wilson Mizner

#careless #efforts #exhausts #flattery #hate

The more we love our friends, the less we flatter them; it is by excusing nothing that pure love shows itself. ↗

— Moliere

#flatter #friends #itself #less #love

Imitation is the highest form of flattery, but clones kind of get it wrong because we are promoting individuality and being proud of being yourself. ↗

— Brian Molko

#being #being proud #being yourself #clones #flattery

I always find it flattering when somebody recognizes me. ↗

— Rick Moranis

#find #flattering #i #i always #me

The unflattering reviews are painful for short periods of time; the badly written ones are deeply, deeply insulting. That reviewer took no time to really read the book. ↗

— Toni Morrison

#book #deeply #insulting #ones #painful

Many know how to flatter, few know how to praise. ↗

— Wendell Phillips

#flatter #how #know #many #praise

To believe that patriotism will not flourish if patriotic ceremonies are voluntary... is to make an unflattering estimate of the appeal of our institutions to free minds. ↗

— Robert Jackson

#believe #ceremonies #estimate #flourish #free