#flatter

If people have split views about your work, I think it's flattering. I'd rather have them feel something about it than dismiss it. ↗

— Stephen Sondheim

#dismiss #feel #flattering #i #i think

Flattery is all right so long as you don't inhale. ↗

— Adlai E. Stevenson

#inhale #long #right #you

The women who inspired this play deserved to be smacked across the head with a meat ax and that, I flatter myself, is exactly what I smacked them with. ↗

— Clare Boothe Luce

#ax #deserved #exactly #flatter #head

It is useless to give me compliments because I forget them minutes later! ↗

— Geetha Golla

#character #flattery #praise #attitude

It's love that makes the world go round - otherwise it would be flat. ↗

— Jay Woodman

#love #round #world #love

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

— Philip Stanhope

#child #children #consults #does #flatters

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

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

I don't call you handsome, sir, though I love you most dearly: far too dearly to flatter you. Don't flatter me. ↗

— Charlotte Bronte

#dearly #far #flatter #handsome #i