#latter

I can spot empty flattery and know exactly where I stand. In the end it's really only my own approval or disapproval that means anything. ↗

— Agnetha Faltskog

#approval #disapproval #empty #end #exactly

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

The issue of the Betrayal was so central to that, I felt the need to comment upon it. My choices were to ignore the games and put them "outside" of continuity or to integrate them. I chose the latter. ↗

— Raymond E. Feist

#central #choices #chose #comment #continuity

A good historian is timeless; although he is a patriot, he will never flatter his country in any respect. ↗

— Francois Fenelon

#any #country #flatter #good #his

'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

She was scrubbing furiously at a line of grease spots which led from the stove towards the door to the dining-room. That was where Henry had held the platter tilted as he carried the steak in yesterday. And yet if she had warned him once about that, she had a thousand times! ↗

— Dorothy Canfield Fisher

#carried #door #furiously #grease #had

There are two way of establishing a reputation, one to be praised by honest people and the other to be accused by rogues. It is best, however, to secure the first one, because it will always be accompanied by the latter. ↗

— Charles Caleb Colton

#accused #always #because #best #establishing

The society of dead authors has this advantage over that of the living: they never flatter us to our faces, nor slander us behind our backs, nor intrude upon our privacy, nor quit their shelves until we take them down. ↗

— Charles Caleb Colton

#authors #backs #behind #dead #down