#latter

Those who create are rare; those who cannot are numerous. Therefore, the latter are stronger. ↗

— Coco Chanel

#create #latter #numerous #rare #stronger

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

When your friends begin to flatter you on how young you look, it's a sure sign you're getting old. ↗

— Mark Twain

#flatter #friends #getting #getting old #how

This flattery has been rather slow in coming. I think all of sudden late in life now I'm getting some credit for what I've done. Which is gratifying, but it's kind of a little late. ↗

— Jack Vance

#coming #credit #done #flattery #getting

I trust it will not be giving away professional secrets to say that many readers would be surprised, perhaps shocked, at the questions which some newspaper editors will put to a defenseless woman under the guise of flattery. ↗

— Kate Chopin

#defenseless #editors #flattery #giving #guise

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

— Johnny Vegas

#awards #become #flattered #getting #i

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

— Joseph Conrad

#enemy #flattering #friend #illusions #thought

It is for the latter that I always wanted to be an actor: to play characters who are always on the move. ↗

— Tony Curtis

#always #characters #i #i always #latter

Every flatterer lives at the expense of him who listens to him. ↗