#flatter

God was treated like this powerful, erratic, rather punitive father who has to be pacified and praised. You know, flattered. ↗

— John Cleese

#father #flattered #god #know #like

My vanity was flattered by having been mistaken for our revered sovereign. I ordered a banquet to be got ready for the following evening, under the trees before my house, and invited the whole town. ↗

— Adelbert von Chamisso

#been #before #evening #flattered #following

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

For lack of a better term, they've labeled me a sex symbol. It's flattering and it should happen to every bald, overweight guy. ↗

— Dennis Franz

#better #every #flattering #guy #happen

I think we can have some tax reform, but that doesn't mean tax increases. We ought to make the, the rates flatter. We ought to get rid of a bunch of those loopholes. ↗

— John Kasich

#flatter #get #i #i think #increases

I enjoy countless hundreds pursuing me. I love those who love me the most. I am sort of flattered by men showing attention to me. ↗

— Hedy Lamarr

#attention #countless #enjoy #flattered #hundreds

I don't flatter myself - I'm not a scientist, I'm not a conservation expert. ↗

— Edward Norton

#expert #flatter #i #myself #scientist

Flattery is all right so long as you don't inhale. ↗

— Adlai E. Stevenson

#inhale #long #right #you

The women who inspired this play deserved to be smacked across the head with a meat ax and that, I flatter myself, is exactly what I smacked them with. ↗

— Clare Boothe Luce

#ax #deserved #exactly #flatter #head

I cannot encourage any fabrication even for the sake of making people feel good. If I were to fabricate consciously and knowingly, I would not only be ordaining myself their enemy, but also ordaining myself God's enemy. ↗

— Criss Jami

#christianity #enemies #fabrications #facts #flattery