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Gossip is what you say about the objects of flattery when they aren't present.


P. J. O'Rourke


#flattery #gossip #objects #present #say

Doubt is an uneasy and dissatisfied state from which we struggle to free ourselves and pass into the state of belief; while the latter is a calm and satisfactory state which we do not wish to avoid, or to change to a belief in anything else.


Charles Sanders Peirce


#avoid #belief #calm #change #dissatisfied

The fact that anyone would find me sexy is very, very flattering, but ridiculous. I so don't believe it. But I'm flattered. Truth is, I don't lift a finger to look sexy. Ever.


Laura Prepon


#believe #ever #fact #find #finger

I don't flatter myself with much dependence upon the present disposition of the Eastern Indians, who are many ways liable to be drawn into a rupture with us by the artifices of the French, their own weakness and the influence which the French Missionary Priests have over them.


William Shirley


#dependence #disposition #drawn #eastern #flatter

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

The public wants work which flatters its illusions.


Gustave Flaubert


#artists #creativity #flattery #public #readers

Junipers are generally chosen for the latter purpose, as they can be more readily bent into the desired form; the eyes and tongue are added afterwards, and the representation altogether is really good.


Robert Fortune


#afterwards #altogether #bent #chosen #desired

Flatter me, and I may not believe you. Criticize me, and I may not like you. Ignore me, and I may not forgive you. Encourage me, and I will not forget you. Love me and I may be forced to love you.


William Arthur Ward


#criticize #encourage #flatter #forced #forget

Funny thing about guilt: There's nothing so bad that you can't add a little guilt to it and make it worse; and there's nothing so good you can't add guilt to it and make it better. Guilt distracts us from a greater truth: we have an inherent ability to heal. We seem intent on living through even the worst heartbreak... How? ... Practice.


C. Jay Cox


#latter-day #funny