"I keep going over a sentence. I nag……" — Janet Flanner
"I keep going over a sentence. I nag it, gnaw it, pat and flatter it."
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14 Quotes by Janet Flanner
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The older women were Sunbeams and I guess we were Cherubs or Lambs, but our mothers were Nightingales.
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By jove, no wonder women don't love war nor understand it, nor can operate in it as a rule; it…
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Women have invented nothing in all that, except the men who were born as male babies and grew up to…
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In the history of art there are periods when bread seems so beautiful that it nearly gets into museums.
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I act as a sponge. I soak it up and squeeze it out in ink every two weeks.
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I am invariably and have been since adolescence inimical to the Republican mind which shows at the most inflated size…
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The stench of human wreckage in which the Nazi regime finally sank down to defeat has been the most shocking…
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When I hear a writer say that they ‘put in a call,’ I want to pull my hair out.
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She died with a knife in her hand in her kitchen, where she had cooked for fifty years, and the…
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Genius is immediate, but talent takes time.
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When you look at the startling ruins of Nuremberg, you are looking at a result of the war. When you…
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She had storms all her life, but she died peacefully.
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More Flatter Quotes
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one of 181 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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To flatter and follow others, without being flattered and followed in turn, is but a state of half enjoyment.
— Jane Austen
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He who knows how to flatter also knows how to slander.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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I don't call you handsome, sir, though I love you most dearly: far too dearly to flatter you. Don't flatter…
— Charlotte Bronte
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That praises are without reason lavished on the dead, and that the honours due only to are paid to antiquity,…
— Ben Jonson
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Inexperienced girls flatter themselves with the notion that it is in their power to make a man happy.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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We must be careful how we flatter fools too little, or wise men too much, for the flatterer must act…
— Charles Caleb Colton
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A dog will flatter you but you have to flatter the cat.
— George Mikes
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The award of a pure gold medal for poetry would flatter the recipient unduly: no poem ever attains such carat…
— Robert Graves
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We are so concerned to flatter the majority that we lose sight of how very often it is necessary, in…
— William F. Buckley, Jr.
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When our vices desert us, we flatter ourselves that we are deserting our vices.
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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Revile those who flatter you.
— Rumi
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They are deceived who flatter themselves that the ignorant and debased slave has no conception of the magnitude of his…
— Solomon Northup
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