#baloney

Baloney is flattery laid on so thick it cannot be true, and blarney is flattery so thin we love it. ↗

— Fulton J. Sheen

#be true #cannot #flattery #laid #love

baloney is flattery so thick it cannot be true; blarney is flatter so thin we like it. ↗

— Monsignor Fulton J. Sheen

#blarney #compliment #flattery #humor #humor

In fact a lot of them I think are absolute baloney. Those Charles Olsens and people like that. At first I was interested in seeing what they were up to, what they were doing, why they were doing it. They never moved me in the way that one is moved by true poetry. ↗

— Norman MacCaig

#baloney #charles #doing #fact #first

No matter how thin you slice it, it's still baloney. ↗

— Alfred Emanuel Smith

#how #matter #slice #still #thin

It's like you always have to put on a happy face, be the phony baloney, and I'm so not that. I never was that; I'll never be that. That is part of the business that I don't like. Maybe that will always keep me an outsider, I don't know. But that's fine. ↗

— Chloe Sevigny

#baloney #business #face #fine #happy