#latter

There are significant human rights abuses in China. In some areas, the situation is worse today than in the past. In other areas, there have been improvements. We will recognize the latter, and be critical of the former. ↗

— Max Baucus

#been #china #critical #former #human

Even though now I'm pretty popular in my country and tennis is the No. 1 sport, and I'm very flattered that the people recognise me and come up and give me compliments, I'm more a person who likes to have privacy and peace. ↗

— Novak Djokovic

#compliments #country #even #flattered #give

Rock gives children, on a silver platter, with all the public authority of the entertainment industry, everything their parents always used to tell them they had to wait for until they grew up and would understand later. ↗

— Allan Bloom

#authority #children #entertainment #entertainment industry #everything

There are two kinds of worries - those you can do something about and those you can't. Don't spend any time on the latter. ↗

— Duke Ellington

#any #kinds #latter #something #spend

Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver. ↗

— Edmund Burke

#corrupts #flattery #giver #receiver

I was on holiday recently and I came home to find that one of the papers here had 'bikini'd' me on the beach. I was wearing a grossly unflattering costume and they had published photographs of me taken from behind. I looked dreadful. I went into our local newsagent and bought up every copy. ↗

— Amanda Burton

#behind #bikini #bought #came #copy

'Handsome' means many things to many people. If people consider me handsome, I feel flattered - and have my parents to thank for it. Realistically, it doesn't hurt to be good-looking, especially in this business. ↗

— Richard Chamberlain

#business #consider #especially #feel #flattered

My vanity was flattered by having been mistaken for our revered sovereign. I ordered a banquet to be got ready for the following evening, under the trees before my house, and invited the whole town. ↗

— Adelbert von Chamisso

#been #before #evening #flattered #following

Often times I'm confronted with a quote that I don't remember saying. So, on one hand it's very flattering, it is just so surreal. ↗

— Will Ferrell

#flattering #hand #i #just #often

Flattery in courtship is the highest insolence, for whilst it pretends to bestow on you more than you deserve, it is watching an opportunity to take from you what you really have. ↗

— Sarah Fielding

#courtship #deserve #flattery #highest #insolence