Flatter Quotes
181 quotes by 156 authors
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I assumed that everything must yield to me, that the entire universe had to flatter my whims, and that I had the right to satisfy…
— Marquis de Sade
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… that sour blend of loneliness and lust for recognition, shyness and extravagance, deep insecurity and self-intoxicated egomania, that drives poets and writers out of…
— Amos Oz
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What if I arrange to be around Lord Akeldama during the full moon?†The earl looked daggers. “I am certain he would be extremely helpful…
— Gail Carriger
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You flatter me shamelessly. I like it. Good.
— Kenneth Oppel
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Madam, you flatter yourself. I do not want to marry you or anyone else. I am not a marrying man. - Rhett Butler
— Margaret Mitchell
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The bards sing of love, they celebrate slaughter, they extol kings and flatter queens, but were I a poet I would write in praise of…
— Bernard Cornwell
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To pray to God is to flatter oneself that with words one can alter nature.
— Voltaire
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Can't you just keep your big mouth shut?" Brian said furiously to Nan. He pointed to Chrestomanci. "How do we know he's safe? For all…
— Diana Wynne Jones
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Blessed is he who has learned to admire but not envy, to follow but not imitate, to praise but not flatter, and to lead but…
— William Arthur Ward
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A good historian is timeless; although he is a patriot, he will never flatter his country in any respect.
— Francois Fenelon
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No one can flatter himself that he is immune to the spirit of his own epoch, or even that he possesses a full understanding of…
— Carl Jung
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Although men flatter themselves with their great actions, they are not so often the result of a great design as of chance.
— Francois Truffaut
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Dumbing down takes many forms: art that is good for you, museums that flatter you, universities that increase your self-esteem. Culture, after all, is really…
— Denis Dutton
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Were I to flatter myself with the possibility of success in such combat, it would indeed be presumption.
— Anna Seward
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Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more…
— Oliver Wendell Holmes
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Your anger is like the bubbles in a can of soda. The more youre shaken, the more you want to let it out. The longer…
— Malcolm X
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When our vices quit us, we flatter ourselves with the belief that it is we who quit them
— Francois La Rochefoucauld
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Music, even in situations of the greatest horror, should never be painful to the ear but should flatter and charm it, and thereby always remain…
— Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
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Dont flatter yourself, sweetheart. The only fan you have is on the ceiling.
— Superman
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Yeah I hear you talking Don't know who you trying to flatter Got my mind made up...I'm ready for you.
— Treasure:)
Who Wrote These Flatter Quotes
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