#latter

Women are only children of a larger growth. A man of sense only trifles with them, plays with them, humours and flatters them, as he does with a sprightly and forward child; but he neither consults them about, nor trusts them with, serious matters. ↗

— Philip Stanhope

#child #children #consults #does #flatters

Then, in the spirit of benevolence, "Your face is well balanced." She slapped him encouragingly on the back, "You have very long eyelashes. Like a cow. ↗

— S.U. Pacat

#fantasy #flattery #m-m-romance #balance

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

The flattery of posterity is not worth much more than contemporary flattery, which is worth nothing. ↗

— Jorge Luis Borges

#flattery #more #much #nothing #posterity

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

All the president is, is a glorified public relations man who spends his time flattering, kissing, and kicking people to get them to do what they are supposed to do anyway. ↗

— Harry S. Truman

#anyway #flattering #get #glorified #his

I always wear my sweater back-to-front; it is so much more flattering. ↗

— Diana Vreeland

#flattering #i #i always #more #much

For a while, I couldn't decide whether or not I should pursue singing in the opera or acting. And I'm glad that I chose the latter because I wasn't a very good singer. ↗

— Christoph Waltz

#because #chose #decide #glad #good

I'm very flattered, but I don't think I'm the sexiest man on the planet. ↗

— Douglas Wilson

#i #man #planet #sexiest #think

That I feel a desire, my friends, that we in this latter day of the world, in which light is fast spreading, that we should be willing to attend to those portions of the Scriptures of truth that direct us home to the foundation. ↗

— Elias Hicks

#day #desire #direct #fast #feel