#flatter

He who says he hates every kind of flattery, and says it in earnest, certainly does not yet know every kind of flattery. ↗

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

#does #earnest #every #flattery #hates

Knavery and flattery are blood relations. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

#flattery #knavery #relations

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

So, I'm the Eighth Wonder of the World. It's flattering and very, very funny. ↗

— Eva Longoria

#flattering #funny #i #very #wonder

People see my impressions as a great skill and I am flattered, but there are things I can't do that everyone else can. I can do funny voices and funny faces but I can't drive. ↗

— Matt Lucas

#drive #else #everyone #faces #flattered

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

— Ninon de L'Enclos

#flattering #prepare #really #those #unthinkingly

Living in Hollywood, it's easy to have someone flatter you. That doesn't help me. ↗

— Marilyn Manson

#flatter #help #hollywood #living #me

I didn't know that people compared Bill Hicks and I but certainly I'm flattered if they do. I knew Bill a bit. We had dinner a couple of times and played guitar together once. I really tried to keep my distance from him professionally. ↗

— Marc Maron

#bit #certainly #compared #couple #dinner

The love of one's own sex is precious, for it is neither provoked by vanity nor retained by flattery; it is genuine and sincere. ↗

— Maria Mitchell

#genuine #love #neither #nor #own

I hate careless flattery, the kind that exhausts you in your efforts to believe it. ↗

— Wilson Mizner

#careless #efforts #exhausts #flattery #hate