#flatter

You don't want to be flattered and become big-headed by getting awards. But, well, I am. ↗

— Johnny Vegas

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Action is consolatory. It is the enemy of thought and the friend of flattering illusions. ↗

— Joseph Conrad

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Everyone likes flattery; and when you come to Royalty you should lay it on with a trowel. ↗

— Benjamin Disraeli

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I'm very flattered, but I don't think I'm the sexiest man on the planet. ↗

— Douglas Wilson

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More people are flattered into virtue than bullied out of vice. ↗

— Robert Smith Surtees

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A man of sense only trifles with them, plays with them, humors and flatters them, as he does with a sprightly and forward child; but he neither consults them about, nor trusts them with, serious matters. ↗

— Lord Chesterfield

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I guess I'm flattered that people think I can help get things done. ↗

— Tony Dungy

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I keep going over a sentence. I nag it, gnaw it, pat and flatter it. ↗

— Janet Flanner

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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

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

— Ali Larter

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