#flattery

To ask advice is in nine cases out of ten to tout for flattery. ↗

— John Churton Collins

#ask #cases #flattery #nine #out

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

— P. J. O'Rourke

#flattery #gossip #objects #present #say

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

— Adlai E. Stevenson

#inhale #long #right #you

The public wants work which flatters its illusions. ↗

— Gustave Flaubert

#artists #creativity #flattery #public #readers

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

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

— Jane Austen

#pride

Heart-stopping envy is the sincerest form of flattery. ↗

— Anna Godbersen

#flattery #envy