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flattery despise flattered
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. Charles Caleb Colton
flattery imitation
Imitation is the sincerest of flattery.
flattery imitation form
Imitation is the highest form of flattery.
flattery
To be most effective, flattery is always best applied with a trowel. Alan Bradley
flattery
Flattery'll get you anywhere. Charles Lederer
flattery invitations
Invitation is the sincerest flattery. Carolyn Wells
flattery rudeness deals
I like rudeness a great deal better than flattery. Charlotte Bronte
flattery praise satire
Praise to the undeserving is severe satire. Benjamin Franklin
flattery absurd seems
A flatterer never seems absurd: The flatter'd always takes his word.
conceit
It is the ultimate conceit of conservatives: that more than half of American voters don't make up more than half of our country. Kurt Eichenwald
conceited men swear-to-god
So I swear to God, I took one year where I just said, This year, I'm just going to cop to it and say to people, 'Okay, where did we meet?' But it just got worse. People were more offended. Every now and then, someone will give me context, and I'll say, 'Thank you for helping me.' But I piss more people off. You get this thing, like, 'You're being egotistical. You're being conceited.' But it's a mystery to me, man. I can't grasp a face and yet I come from such a design/aesthetic point of view. I am going to get it tested. Brad Pitt
conceited thinking want
Why no. I’m too conceited. If you want to call it that. I don’t make comparisons. I never think of myself in relation to anyone else. I just refuse to measure myself as part of anything. I’m an utter egotist. Ayn Rand
conceited two rome
The world knows only two, that's Rome and I. Ben Jonson
conceited play plain-english
[The play] is like to be a very conceited scurvy one, in plain English.
conceited duty men others respecting
The overweening self-respect of conceited men relieves others from the duty of respecting them at all Henry Ward Beecher
conceited blessing political
A national debt, if it is not excessive, will be to us a national blessing. Alexander Hamilton
conceited thinking america
We have all heard of Young America. He is the most current youth of the age. Some think him conceited, and arrogant; but has he not reason to entertain a rather extensive opinion of himself? Is he not the inventor and owner of the present, and sole hope of the future? Abraham Lincoln
conceited happened ignore listen neither openly others powerful slight special truth
Sri Yukteswar showed no special consideration to those who happened to be powerful or accomplished; neither did he slight others for their poverty or illiteracy. He would listen respectfully to words of truth from a child, and openly ignore a conceited pundit. Paramahansa Yogananda
delusion directly doubt great greatness himself identified left writer
My father had always identified himself as a writer to my mother when they met. When they met, he was writing this great novel, there was no doubt about it. Part of why she left him was this delusion of greatness and identifying it very directly with being an artist. Nick Flynn
delusional
The delusional is no longer marginal. Bill Moyers
delusion draw great subject superior tries understanding whose
It is a great delusion in those whose understanding has been darkened by self-love, to think that there is any obedience in the subject who tries to draw the superior to what he wishes. Saint Ignatius
delusions drove talk
One of his delusions drove him to testify, If I can just get up and talk to the American people, I will be set free.
delusion desires hates neither nor presence
One who neither hates the presence of enlightenment, activity, and delusion nor desires for them when they are absent.
delusions saw
Because of the way you were acting. I didn't need his evidence. I saw your delusions myself.
delusions fastest guy man runner second sexiest shut smartest strongest
Never for a second did I think of myself as the sexiest guy in the world. When I was a kid, I thought I was the strongest man in the world. Then, the fastest runner and then the smartest person in the world. One by one my delusions got shut down. Now I just see myself as the lamest guy in the world. Jack Black
delusions disappear escaping exactly people strike themselves truth
I never write to disappear and escape. The truth is exactly the opposite. Most people strike me as escaping and disappearing in one way or another - into their jobs, their daily routines, their delusions about themselves and others. Steven Millhauser
delusion dies
We live and we die and anything else is just a delusion. Chuck Palahniuk