#latter

I've written 16 children's books and five unpublished novels. Some of the latter were breathtakingly bad. ↗

— Mark Haddon

#books #children #five #i #latter

People until I was 60 would always say they thought I looked younger, which I think, without flattering myself, I did, but I think I certainly have, as George Orwell says people do after a certain age, the face they deserve. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#age #always #certain #certain age #certainly

More people are flattered into virtue than bullied out of vice. ↗

— Robert Smith Surtees

#flattered #into #more #more people #out

...Other women I can flatter and praise – but to you, I must tell the truth... ↗

— John Geddes

#love #truth #women #love

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

— Jay Woodman

#love #round #world #love

It's been many years since I had such an exemplary vegetable. ↗

— Jane Austen

#pride

Heart-stopping envy is the sincerest form of flattery. ↗

— Anna Godbersen

#flattery #envy

Neither was there any heresy, or diversity of opinion, or disputing about the matter, till the pope had gathered a council to confirm this transubstantiation: wherefore it is most likely that this opinion came up by them of latter days. ↗

— William Tyndale

#any #came #confirm #council #days

I trust it will not be giving away professional secrets to say that many readers would be surprised, perhaps shocked, at the questions which some newspaper editors will put to a defenseless woman under the guise of flattery. ↗

— Kate Chopin

#defenseless #editors #flattery #giving #guise

You don't want to be flattered and become big-headed by getting awards. But, well, I am. ↗

— Johnny Vegas

#awards #become #flattered #getting #i