“ Apparently the highest compliment our culture grants artists nowadays is to be in an ad ideally naked and purring on the hood of a new car. I have adamantly and repeatedly refused this dubious honor,... While the court can't make me active in radio, I am asking it to make me radioactive to advertisers. ”
- Tom Waits- Copy
- 3.5K
“ 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. ”
- Jonathan Swift- Copy
- 1.4K
“ We swallow with one gulp the lie that flatters us, and drink drop by drop the truth which is bitter to us. ”
- Denis Diderot- Copy
- 3.9K
“ We often choose a friend as we do a mistress, for no particular excellence in themselves, but merely from some circumstance that flatters our self-love. ”
- William Hazlitt- Copy
- 1.7K
“ Women who are either indisputably beautiful, or indisputably ugly, are best flattered upon the score of their understandings; but those who are in a state of mediocrity are best flattered upon their beauty, or at least their graces: for every woman who is not absolutely ugly, thinks herself handsome. ”
- Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield- Copy
- 3.8K
“ If people are pleased that there is a popular acceptance of anything that came from me, I'm thrilled, you know, and flattered. ”
- Herbie Hancock- Copy
- 3.9K
“ I have been complimented many times and they always embarrass me; I always feel that they have not said enough. ”
- Mark Twain- Copy
- 2.7K
“ To be trusted is always greater a compliment than to be loved. ”
- George Marshall- Copy
- 3.7K
“ I suppose that writers should, in a way, feel flattered by the censorship laws. They show a primitive fear and dread at the fearful magic of print. ”
- John Mortimer- Copy
- 2.7K
“ 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. ”
- Clare Boothe Luce- Copy
- 469
“ An Englishman, being flattered, is a lamb; threatened, a lion. ”
- George Chapman- Copy
- 3.5K
“ I keep going over a sentence. I nag it, gnaw it, pat and flatter it. ”
- Janet Flanner- Copy
- 3.4K
“ We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter. ”
- Denis Diderot- Copy
- 26
“ There is a higher court than courts of justice and that is the court of conscience. It supercedes all other courts. ”
- Mahatma Gandhi- Copy
- 143
“ She jerked away from me like a startled fawn might, if I had a startled fawn and it jerked away from me. ”
- Raymond Chandler- Copy
- 3.1K
“ Women are so much in love with compliments that rather than want them, they will compliment one another, yet mean no more by it than the men do. ”
- Samuel Richardson- Copy
- 2.7K
“ I believe an international criminal court is very much to be desired. ”
- Harold Pinter- Copy
- 2K
“ Maybe something happened at the other end of the court, but I don't like that. There has to be dignity at the end of the game. ”
- Pat Riley- Copy
- 925
“ Justice delayed in this case is not justice denied,... The courts are the ultimate arbiters of evidence, and this case is now back in the hands of the courts. ”
- Rick Perry- Copy
- 788
“ Twilight, a timid, fawn, went glimmering by, And Night, the dark-blue hunter, followed fast. ”
- George William Russell- Copy
- 1.2K
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