#latter

Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

#become #come #courtesy #disagreeable #flatter

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

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

There are people who are really good managers, people who can manage a big organization, and then there are people who are very analytic or focused on strategy. Those two types don't usually tend to be in the same person. I would put myself much more in the latter camp. ↗

— Mark Zuckerberg

#big #camp #focused #good #good managers

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

It's the same with visual arts, you have some really cool, wonderful striking images that make you think and then again you have wonderful striking images that just take you away from the existing world for a second. And I like the latter a bit more. ↗

— Ville Valo

#arts #away #bit #cool #existing

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

The scoreline is a bit flattering really. ↗

— Kenny Dalglish

#flattering #really