#latter

Said I was beautiful, did he? He's being paid for treatment, not flattery. ↗

— Lillie Langtry

#being #did #flattery #i #paid

Living in Hollywood, it's easy to have someone flatter you. That doesn't help me. ↗

— Marilyn Manson

#flatter #help #hollywood #living #me

I didn't know that people compared Bill Hicks and I but certainly I'm flattered if they do. I knew Bill a bit. We had dinner a couple of times and played guitar together once. I really tried to keep my distance from him professionally. ↗

— Marc Maron

#bit #certainly #compared #couple #dinner

It is common to distinguish necessaries, comforts, and luxuries; the first class including all things required to meet wants which must be satisfied, while the latter consist of things that meet wants of a less urgent character. ↗

— Alfred Marshall

#character #class #comforts #common #consist

Sometimes Aristotle analyses his terms, but very often he takes them for granted; and in the latter case, I think, he is sometimes deceived by them. ↗

— Gilbert Murray

#aristotle #case #deceived #granted #his

I don't think that I am a sex symbol, although it's very flattering. ↗

— Liam Neeson

#am #flattering #i #i am #sex

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

— Wendell Phillips

#flatter #how #know #many #praise

When the characters are really alive before their author, the latter does nothing but follow them in their action, in their words, in the situations which they suggest to him. ↗

— Luigi Pirandello

#alive #author #before #characters #does

When the strong box contains no more both friends and flatterers shun the door. ↗

— Plutarch

#box #contains #door #flatterers #friends

There's something so romantic about being broke in New York. You gotta do it. You have to live there once without any money, and then you have to live there when you have money. Let me tell you, of the two, the latter is far better. ↗

— Amy Poehler

#any #being #being broke #better #broke