#flatter

I am flattered to have been the woman to have opened the door for female rockers to be accepted into the mainly male industry. ↗

— Suzi Quatro

#am #been #door #female #flattered

To believe that patriotism will not flourish if patriotic ceremonies are voluntary... is to make an unflattering estimate of the appeal of our institutions to free minds. ↗

— Robert Jackson

#believe #ceremonies #estimate #flourish #free

Nothing flatters a man as much as the happiness of his wife; he is always proud of himself as the source of it. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#flatters #happiness #himself #his #man

Faith, there hath been many great men that have flattered the people who ne'er loved them. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#faith #flattered #great #great men #hath

He that loves to be flattered is worthy o' the flatterer. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#flatterer #loves #worthy

There have been many great men that have flattered the people who ne'er loved them. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#flattered #great #great men #loved #many

To be told you've won a MacArthur fellowship is very flattering and gratifying personally. ↗

— David Simon

#flattering #gratifying #personally #told #very

Popular culture is a place where pity is called compassion, flattery is called love, propaganda is called knowledge, tension is called peace, gossip is called news, and auto-tune is called singing. ↗

— Criss Jami

#bandwagon #compassion #culture #fads #flattery

He shook his head, but I kept flattering him, telling him how fine his beard was, how fair his skin was (ha!), how it was obvious from his nose and forehead that he wasn't some pig herd who had converted, but a true-blue Muslim who had flown here on a magic carpet all the way from Mecca, and he grunted with satisfaction ↗

— Aravind Adiga

#funny #funny

I'm flattered that so many baseball people think I'm a Hall of Famer. But what's hard to believe is how one-hundred and fifty plus people have changed their minds about me since I became eligible, because I haven't had a base hit since then. ↗

— Richie Ashburn

#base #baseball #became #because #believe