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Flatter me, and I may not believe you. Criticize me, and I may not like you. Ignore me, and I may not forgive you. Encourage me, and I will not forget you. Love me and I may be forced to love you.
Many know how to flatter, few know how to praise.
He who knows how to flatter also knows how to slander.
I don't care how stylish something is if it doesn't flatter me.
It is simpler and easier to flatter people than to praise them.
In politics, yesterday's lie is attacked only to flatter today's.
The angle we give the bathroom mirror is always meant to flatter.
I keep going over a sentence. I nag it, gnaw it, pat and flatter it.
I don't flatter myself - I'm not a scientist, I'm not a conservation expert.
If we did not flatter ourselves, the flattery of others could never harm us.
Living in Hollywood, it's easy to have someone flatter you. That doesn't help me.
Flatter not thyself in thy faith in God if thou hast not charity for thy neighbor.
Having a lower tax, simpler, fairer, flatter tax system is something that can drive growth.
When your friends begin to flatter you on how young you look, it's a sure sign you're getting old.
Were I to flatter myself with the possibility of success in such combat, it would indeed be presumption.
A good historian is timeless; although he is a patriot, he will never flatter his country in any respect.
Not to flatter myself, but I know that you can influence people's opinion as a musician, and I don't want to.
To flatter and follow others, without being flattered and followed in turn, is but a state of half enjoyment.
The more we love our friends, the less we flatter them; it is by excusing nothing that pure love shows itself.
I don't call you handsome, sir, though I love you most dearly: far too dearly to flatter you. Don't flatter me.
I think it takes time to find your natural style and learn not to be swayed by trends that might not flatter you.
Mathematicians may flatter themselves that they possess new ideas which mere human language is as yet unable to express.
Underwear is such a great gift, but try to go for brands that flatter your girlfriend's shape - a little structure can be great.
All of us should be on guard against beliefs that flatter ourselves. At the very least, we should check such beliefs against facts.
I have a little half-Asian butt, and the more I work out, the more I try to get it bigger, it's just going to get flatter and harder.
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 know that is not so.
You will get the most attention from those who hate you. No friend, no admirer and no partner will flatter you with as much curiosity.
Americans deserve a simple, fairer, and flatter tax code that jumpstarts our economy, helps create jobs, and makes America a leader again.
I flatter myself to even imagine I could have had a medical practice. There's no way. I'm not scientific or disciplined enough, lots of things.
I experiment, but I am extremely mindful of the things I wear. The key is to accept your body type and pick cuts and styles that flatter your frame.
The women who inspired this play deserved to be smacked across the head with a meat ax and that, I flatter myself, is exactly what I smacked them with.
Niall Ferguson is an intellectual fraud whose job, for years, has been to impress dumb, rich Americans with his accent and flatter them with his writings.
Though men are apt to flatter and exalt themselves with their great achievements, yet these are, in truth, very often owing not so much to design as chance.
Nothing is so great an example of bad manners as flattery. If you flatter all the company, you please none; If you flatter only one or two, you offend the rest.
I think we can have some tax reform, but that doesn't mean tax increases. We ought to make the, the rates flatter. We ought to get rid of a bunch of those loopholes.
I think impersonation is a great art. It's something that I enjoy doing, in a frivolous and lighthearted way. But I don't flatter myself to think I'm an impersonator.
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 about you.
I must not say what I truly think, or you will tell me I flatter you-but I can only speak what I feel-and very often I cannot even do that when the feeling is very deep.
What I'd like to do is continue a private sector, free market Main Street types of policies. And those include less regulation. They include a fairer, flatter tax system.
Jeans can make or break a look, and if it's not a good-fitting pair, if they don't flatter your body, it doesn't matter what else you've got on - it's not going to look good.
I would warn my brethren and sisters to never flatter persons because of their ability; for they cannot bear it. Self is easily exalted, and in consequence, persons lose their balance.
So you shouldn't really flatter yourself that they want to be your buddy. They don't. Generally. They want you for some reason or other, and you just have to fend that off all the time.
When I was getting overly 'droppy,' that's when I was hitting shots left and right. That's what we were doing, so maybe if my swing was a touch flatter, I wouldn't drop the club as much.
I'm not always happy when Hollywood does remakes of films, but that's usually when they have a very, very, very good film, and they take away anything controversial from it and make flatter.
The conquest of the earth, which mostly means the taking it away from those who have a different complexion or slightly flatter noses than ourselves, is not a pretty thing when you look into it too much.
People may flatter themselves just as much by thinking that their faults are always present to other people's minds, as if they believe that the world is always contemplating their individual charms and virtues.
Don't flatter yourselves that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. On the contrary, the nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become.
Arrogance sort of destroys that nervousness because you're having a bunch of people flatter you and tell you you're awesome, and it keeps you from striving as hard for the kind of validation you seek from a good show.
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.
Tell me not of joy: there's none Now my little sparrow's gone; He, just as you, Would toy and woo, He would chirp and flatter me, He would hang the wing awhile, Till at length he saw me smile, Lord! how sullen he would be!
