#latter

Flattery and insults raise the same question: What do you want? ↗

— Mason Cooley

#insults #question #raise #same #want

To a poet, silence is an acceptable response, even a flattering one. ↗

— Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

#even #flattering #poet #response #silence

Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. ↗

— Charles Caleb Colton

#form #imitation #sincerest #sincerest form

The fool within himself is the object of pity, until he is flattered. ↗

— Richard Steele

#fool #himself #object #pity #until

I wrote the Brotherhood song for no money out of my deep feelings about humanity, and because I was flattered that whatever talents I had, had been recognized. ↗

— Tom Glazer

#because #been #brotherhood #deep #feelings

We distinguish the excellent man from the common man by saying that the former is the one who makes great demands on himself, and the latter who makes no demands on himself. ↗

— Jose Ortega y Gasset

#common man #demands #distinguish #excellent #excellent man

Republics are created by the virtue, public spirit, and intelligence of the citizens. They fall, when the wise are banished from the public councils, because they dare to be honest, and the profligate are rewarded, because they flatter the people, in order to betray them. ↗

— Joseph Story

#because #betray #citizens #councils #created

I don't care how stylish something is if it doesn't flatter me. ↗

— Ali Larter

#flatter #how #i #me #something

So you shouldn't really flatter yourself that they want to be your buddy. They don't. Generally. They want you for some reason or other, and you just have to fend that off all the time. ↗

— Kurt Loder

#fend #flatter #generally #just #off

Words really flattering are not those which we prepare but those which escape us unthinkingly. ↗

— Ninon de L'Enclos

#flattering #prepare #really #those #unthinkingly