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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.
William Arthur Ward
Love
Me
Relationship
You
Love Me
Will
Believe
Criticize
Like
Forced
Encourage
Forget
Forgive
May
Love You
Flatter
To Love
Ignore
When your friends begin to flatter you on how young you look, it's a sure sign you're getting old.
Mark Twain
You
Old
Young
Getting Old
Sign
Look
Sure
Sure Sign
How
Friends
Begin
Getting
Flatter
Your
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.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
Friendship
You
Become
Relation
On The Contrary
Say
Tact
More
Disagreeable
Come
Courtesy
Contrary
Person
Flatter
Your
Nearer
Things
Necessary
All of us should be on guard against beliefs that flatter ourselves. At the very least, we should check such beliefs against facts.
Thomas Sowell
Guard
Ourselves
Facts
Check
Least
Very
Flatter
Against
Us
Should
Beliefs
The more we love our friends, the less we flatter them; it is by excusing nothing that pure love shows itself.
Moliere
Love
Pure
Nothing
Our
Pure Love
More
Friends
Itself
Flatter
Them
Less
Shows
Nevertheless the passions, whether violent or not, should never be so expressed as to reach the point of causing disgust; and 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 music.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Music
Charm
Horror
Remain
Point
Never
Nevertheless
Reach
Greatest
Always
Causing
Passions
Situations
Disgust
Whether
Flatter
Should
Painful
Thereby
Even
Expressed
Ear
Violent
Republics are created by the virtue, public spirit, and intelligence of the citizens. They fall, when the wise are banished from the public councils, because they dare to be honest, and the profligate are rewarded, because they flatter the people, in order to betray them.
Joseph Story
Wise
People
Intelligence
Fall
To Be Honest
Virtue
Dare
Citizens
Spirit
Betray
Because
Banished
Rewarded
Order
Flatter
Public
Republics
Them
Created
Honest
I don't care how stylish something is if it doesn't flatter me.
Ali Larter
Me
Care
Something
Stylish
How
Flatter
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
Great
You
Rest
Example
Nothing
Manners
Please
Bad
One Or Two
Bad Manners
Only
None
Offend
Flatter
Flattery
Company
Two
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.
Alex Pareene
Job
Impress
Rich
Has-Been
Fraud
Writings
Accent
Been
His
Years
Ferguson
Dumb
Intellectual
American
Flatter
Them
Whose
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.
Bill Flores
Free
Market
Types
Those
Sector
System
Free Market
Main
Main Street
Like
Fairer
Policies
Private
Continue
Private Sector
Tax
Flatter
Tax System
Regulation
Less
Include
Street
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.
Charles Bock
Myself
Practice
Enough
Way
Could
Had
Disciplined
Scientific
Lots
Flatter
Even
Medical
Things
Imagine
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.
Charles Caleb Colton
Privacy
Down
Living
Society
Our
Backs
Intrude
Faces
Take
Never
Advantage
Over
Until
Dead
Shelves
Nor
Authors
Quit
Behind
Flatter
Them
Us
Slander
I don't flatter myself - I'm not a scientist, I'm not a conservation expert.
Edward Norton
Myself
Scientist
Expert
Flatter
Conservation
Fortunately, our audiences are used to a kind of boredom in the theatre, and if the writer is skillful, he will flatter them into thinking: 'Why, that's us up there, and aren't we - for all our little foibles - pretty nice guys and gals?'
Gore Vidal
Theatre
Will
Nice
Thinking
Our
Kind
Boredom
Pretty
Guys
Writer
He
Audiences
Up
Flatter
Little
Them
Us
Skillful
Used
Fortunately
Nice Guys
Why
If I could have a Barbie body, which has no cellulite, I totally would. I would like to have a flatter stomach, but that won't happen either. That is never going to happen. No matter how much weight I lose, my stomach, below the belly button, always pooches out.
Holly Madison
Matter
Lose
Out
Would
Totally
Could
Never
Weight
Like
Always
How
How Much
Stomach
Going
Diet
Happen
Either
Which
Flatter
Barbie
If I Could
Much
Body
Button
Belly
Below
To flatter and follow others, without being flattered and followed in turn, is but a state of half enjoyment.
Jane Austen
Half
Others
State
Follow
Followed
Without
Being
Flatter
Flattered
Turn
Enjoyment
It is simpler and easier to flatter people than to praise them.
Jean Paul
People
Easier
Simpler
Praise
Than
Flatter
Them
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.
John Kasich
Think
Increases
Ought
Those
Some
Rates
Make
Loopholes
Bunch
Reform
Get
Tax
Tax Increases
Flatter
Tax Reform
Mean
Rid
A stylish person, for me, is one who draws your eye without necessarily being showy; they wear clothes that are beautifully cut, flatter the wearer, and show that they are not impervious to fashion, but not a slave to it either.
Jojo Moyes
Fashion
Me
Clothes
Draws
Eye
Wear
Impervious
Beautifully
Without
Stylish
Person
Being
Either
Flatter
Cut
Your
Show
Who
Showy
Necessarily
Slave
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.
Joseph Conrad
You
Too Much
Complexion
Too
Earth
Slightly
Those
Ourselves
Pretty
Taking
Look
Mostly
Than
Different
Noses
Which
Flatter
Much
Means
Who
Away
Conquest
Thing
Worse there cannot be; a better, I believe, there may be, by giving energy to the capital and skill of the country to produce exports, by increasing which, alone, can we flatter ourselves with the prospect of finding employment for that part of our population now unemployed.
Joseph Hume
Alone
Better
Giving
Country
Energy
Believe
Increasing
Our
Worse
Ourselves
Finding
Part
Prospect
Employment
Unemployed
May
Cannot
Which
Flatter
Capital
Produce
Skill
Exports
Population
Now
Living in Hollywood, it's easy to have someone flatter you. That doesn't help me.
Marilyn Manson
Me
You
Living
Easy
Someone
Flatter
Hollywood
Help
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.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
You
Hate
Will
Partner
Those
Admirer
Attention
Most
Friend
Curiosity
Get
Flatter
Much
Who
Not to flatter myself, but I know that you can influence people's opinion as a musician, and I don't want to.
Oliver Sim
Myself
You
People
Musician
Know
Opinion
Influence
Want
Flatter
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.
Stellan Skarsgard
Good
Happy
Films
Take
Make
Does
Always
Very
Controversial
Anything
Flatter
Hollywood
Film
Away
Good Film
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