#latter

Almost every Marine I've met says I portray a Marine dead-on, which is really, really flattering. ↗

— Catherine Bell

#every #flattering #i #marine #met

Listening, not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery. ↗

— Joyce Brothers

#form #imitation #listening #may #sincerest

We should keep silent about those in power; to speak well of them almost implies flattery; to speak ill of them while they are alive is dangerous, and when they are dead is cowardly. ↗

— Jean de la Bruyere

#alive #almost #cowardly #dangerous #dead

When the leaders choose to make themselves bidders at an auction of popularity, their talents, in the construction of the state, will be of no service. They will become flatterers instead of legislators; the instruments, not the guides, of the people. ↗

— Edmund Burke

#become #choose #construction #flatterers #guides

One could make money and get a career going with a low-budget horror film about killers attacking on holidays. It is always flattering to have somebody copy you. ↗

— John Carpenter

#always #attacking #career #copy #could

Along with the lazy man... the dying man is the immoral man: the former, a subject that does not work; the latter, an object that no longer even makes itself available to be worked on by others. ↗

— Michel De Certeau

#available #does #dying #even #former

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

#child #consults #does #flatters #forward

An external electric field, meeting it and passing through it, affects the negative as much as the positive quanta of the atom, and pushes the former to one side, and the latter in the other direction. ↗

— Johannes Stark

#atom #direction #electric #external #field

An Englishman, being flattered, is a lamb; threatened, a lion. ↗

— George Chapman

#englishman #flattered #lamb #lion #threatened

It's my uniform. Everyone in my company wears it." "It's hideous." Rose felt her hackles rise. The neon green uniform was hideous, but she didn't appreciate him pointing it out. She opened her mouth. "Yet despite it, you look lovely," he said. "Flattery will get you nowhere," she told him. "It's not flattery," he said coldly. "Flattery requires exaggeration. I'm merely stating a fact. You're a beautiful woman wearing an ugly sack of unnatural color. ↗

— Ilona Andrews

#uniforms #beauty