#flatter

A man of sense only trifles with them, plays with them, humors and flatters them, as he does with a sprightly and forward child; but he neither consults them about, nor trusts them with, serious matters. ↗

— Lord Chesterfield

#child #consults #does #flatters #forward

An Englishman, being flattered, is a lamb; threatened, a lion. ↗

— George Chapman

#englishman #flattered #lamb #lion #threatened

It's my uniform. Everyone in my company wears it." "It's hideous." Rose felt her hackles rise. The neon green uniform was hideous, but she didn't appreciate him pointing it out. She opened her mouth. "Yet despite it, you look lovely," he said. "Flattery will get you nowhere," she told him. "It's not flattery," he said coldly. "Flattery requires exaggeration. I'm merely stating a fact. You're a beautiful woman wearing an ugly sack of unnatural color. ↗

— Ilona Andrews

#uniforms #beauty

Flattery and insults raise the same question: What do you want? ↗

— Mason Cooley

#insults #question #raise #same #want

To a poet, silence is an acceptable response, even a flattering one. ↗

— Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

#even #flattering #poet #response #silence

Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. ↗

— Charles Caleb Colton

#form #imitation #sincerest #sincerest form

I must not say what I truly think, or you will tell me I flatter you-but I can only speak what I feel-and very often I cannot even do that when the feeling is very deep. ↗

— Marie Corelli

#deep #even #feeling #flatter #i

The fool within himself is the object of pity, until he is flattered. ↗

— Richard Steele

#fool #himself #object #pity #until

The flattery is nice, but awards don't add up to writing quality songs. ↗

— Chantal Kreviazuk

#awards #flattery #nice #quality #songs

I don't find offensive that I'm being labelled a babe by blokes. I'm absolutely flattered. ↗

— Kirsty Gallacher

#babe #being #blokes #find #flattered