#latter

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

It is useless to give me compliments because I forget them minutes later! ↗

— Geetha Golla

#character #flattery #praise #attitude

My own sex, I hope, will excuse me, if I treat them like rational creatures, instead of flattering their fascinating graces, and viewing them as if they were in a state of perpetual childhood, unable to stand alone. ↗

— Mary Wollstonecraft

#double-standards #empowerment #equality #feminism #flattery

He surprised me by his familiarity with details of movements and battles which I did not suppose had come to his knowledge. As he kept me talking for over half an hour, I flattered myself that what I had to say interested him. ↗

— Henry Villard

#come #details #did #familiarity #flattered

...Other women I can flatter and praise – but to you, I must tell the truth... ↗

— John Geddes

#love #truth #women #love

It's love that makes the world go round - otherwise it would be flat. ↗

— Jay Woodman

#love #round #world #love

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

Say there's a white kid who lives in a nice home, goes to an all-white school, and is pretty much having everything handed to him on a platter - for him to pick up a rap tape is incredible to me, because what that's saying is that he's living a fantasy life of rebellion. ↗

— Eminem

#everything #fantasy #goes #handed #having

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

— Jean de La Fontaine

#expense #flatterer #him #listens #lives

When I compliment you, I compliment myself, because I am who I associate with. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#compliment #flattery #funny #wise #funny