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Immitation is the sincerest form of flattery. Charles Caleb Colton
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Some indeed there are who profess to despise all flattery, but even these are nevertheless to be flattered, by being told that they do despise it.
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Imitation is the sincerest of flattery.
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Imitation is the highest form of flattery.
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To be most effective, flattery is always best applied with a trowel. Alan Bradley
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Flattery'll get you anywhere. Charles Lederer
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Invitation is the sincerest flattery. Carolyn Wells
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Praise to the undeserving is severe satire. Benjamin Franklin
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A flatterer never seems absurd: The flatter'd always takes his word.
insult man mile until walked
Never insult a man until you've walked a mile in his shoes, that way when you insult him, your a mile away and you've got his shoes. Chris Howard
insulted robinson skip somebody trying
Somebody said I sound like an old lady, and I was really insulted by that. I'm trying to sound like Skip James and Smokey Robinson and Marvin Gaye. Tom Waits
insult imitation form
Imitation is the sincerest form of insult. Elbert Hubbard
insults-you insult permission
No one can insult you without your permission. Eleanor Roosevelt
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I think it's insulting to an audience to make them sit and watch a film and then give them a message in one sentence. Asghar Farhadi
insulted scientists
Scientists are not movie stars or politicians who will feel insulted if they are not showered with accolades. Scientists are not interested in accolades. Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
insulted life man might
In a day when, if you insulted a man it might cost you your life, you were probably more civil. Patrick O'Brian
insulting insult easy
It is easy to smile at an insult and pretend it's funny when the person insulting you is hosing you with money. Al Alvarez
insult-to-injury add casts
The easiest time to add insult to injury is when you're signing somebody's cast. Demetri Martin
contempt hold naturally
I can't hold too much contempt for him, because naturally he would be disappointed. Danny Green
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I grew up to have my father's looks- my father's speech patterns-my father's posture- my father's opinions and my mother's contempt for my father Jules Feiffer
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If they haven't gone back to work by Thursday, then we're going to have a very significant penalty phase to deal with. The longer the strike goes, obviously the more serious the contempt is.
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My worst boss was a departmental chair who never learned to appreciate new developments in the field. He had contempt for students and younger researchers, and he saw the job of running the department as a nuisance. Steven Pinker
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Nabokov, who I loved more than any other writer when I was young, had such contempt for dialogue. When I was younger, I never wrote a word of dialogue because of him. I thought it was a childish part of a novel. Zadie Smith
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Unfortunately I think that the young people must feel they are held in contempt by the president and not heard by him.
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Contempt is not a thing to be despised. Edmund Burke
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There are some of his sayings which show him to have been a devout Jew, others that he wished to destroy Judaism, others showing that he held all people except the Jews in contempt and that the wished to save no others, others showing that he wished Robert Ingersoll
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Hatred comes from the heart; contempt from the head; and neither feeling is quite within our control Arthur Schopenhauer