#flatter

Every flatterer lives at the expense of him who listens to him. ↗

— Jean de La Fontaine

#expense #flatterer #him #listens #lives

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

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

— Douglas Wilson

#i #man #planet #sexiest #think

When I compliment you, I compliment myself, because I am who I associate with. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#compliment #flattery #funny #wise #funny

It'd be disingenuous to say I don't like attention - I'm an actor for God's sake - and it's flattering and all, but attention was never my big goal. I just like to work and have a good time. ↗

— Paul Giamatti

#attention #big #disingenuous #flattering #goal

Well, you know, when people say stuff about you, it's always really flattering. But does it mean anything to me? It's not really real to me; there's no reality to it. ↗

— Paul Giamatti

#always #anything #does #flattering #know

In all of my work I'm trying to create a dialogue, in which I want to provoke the recipients, stimulate them to use their own imaginations. I don't just say things recipients want to hear, flatter their egos or comfort them by agreeing with them. I have to provoke them, to take them as seriously as I take myself. ↗

— Michael Haneke

#comfort #create #dialogue #egos #flatter

We often choose a friend as we do a mistress - for no particular excellence in themselves, but merely from some circumstance that flatters our self-love. ↗

— William Hazlitt

#circumstance #excellence #flatters #friend #merely

People until I was 60 would always say they thought I looked younger, which I think, without flattering myself, I did, but I think I certainly have, as George Orwell says people do after a certain age, the face they deserve. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#age #always #certain #certain age #certainly