#flatter

My own sex, I hope, will excuse me, if I treat them like rational creatures, instead of flattering their fascinating graces, and viewing them as if they were in a state of perpetual childhood, unable to stand alone. ↗

— Mary Wollstonecraft

#double-standards #empowerment #equality #feminism #flattery

Cats, like men, are flatterers. ↗

— Walter Savage Landor

#flattery #men #men

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

It's been many years since I had such an exemplary vegetable. ↗

— Jane Austen

#pride

He who knows how to flatter also knows how to slander. ↗

— Napoleon Bonaparte

#also #flatter #how #knows #slander

While being called beautiful is extremely flattering, I would much rather be noticed for my work as an actress. ↗

— Halle Berry

#beautiful #being #called #extremely #flattering

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

— Jorge Luis Borges

#flattery #more #much #nothing #posterity

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

— Jean de La Fontaine

#expense #flatterer #him #listens #lives

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

— Diana Vreeland

#flattering #i #i always #more #much

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

— Jarod Kintz

#compliment #flattery #funny #wise #funny