Flatter Quotes

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While we flatter ourselves that things remain the same, they are changing under our very eyes from year to year, from day to day. — Charlotte Perkins Gilman
The difference between me and Bono is that he's quite happy to go and flatter people to get what he wants and he's very good… — Thom Yorke
Some men mistake generosity for charity: these flatter themselves that they are giving gratuitously, whilst they are merely rewarding secret services offered their vanity. — Norm MacDonald
A traveller must have the back of an ass to bear all, a tongue like the tail of a dog to flatter all, the mouth… — Thomas Nashe
Gourmandise is an impassioned, rational and habitual preference for all objects that flatter the sense of taste. — Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
I try to photograph her beauty; with a man I try to show his character. Once I photographed a man with a big nose, and… — Philippe Halsman
They say that if the Swiss had designed these mountains they'd be rather flatter. — Paul Theroux
I should be glad if I could flatter myself that I came as near the central idea of the occasion, in two hours, as you… — Edward Everett
Beware of feedback from friends whose judgments could be tainted by feelings of envy or the need to flatter. — Curtis Jackson
How vast those Orbs must be, and how inconsiderable this Earth, the Theatre upon which all our mighty Designs, all our Navigations, and all our… — Christiaan Huygens
When people flatter you constantly it is very tempting to think you deserve it. — Ruth Reichl
The Scripture stories do not, like Homerâ€™s, court our favor, they do not flatter us that they may please us and enchant usâ€”they seek to… — Erich Auerbach
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… — William Shirley
The Pope should not flatter himself about his power nor should he rashly glory in his honor and high estate, because the less he is… — Pope Innocent III
You can always draw as well as you know how to. I flatter myself that I feel more than I express on canvas; but I… — William Morris Hunt
To make a man perfectly happy tell him he works too hard, that he spends too much money, that he is misunderstood or that he… — Helen Rowland
God felt, God tasted and enjoyed is indeed God, but God with those gifts which flatter the soul, God in darkness, in privation, in forsakenness,… — Francois Fenelon
Seek but provision of bread and wine, fools to flatter, and clothing fine; and nothing of God shall ever be thine. — Wes Smith
Mathematicians may flatter themselves that they possess new ideas which mere human language is as yet unable to express. — James Clerk Maxwell
An old philosopher said to Monsieur Coignard, a Reverend Father: 'You are a pig!' To which Abad Coignard answered: 'You flatter me, sir. But unfortunately,… — Anatole France

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