A Quote by Kenneth Oppel

You flatter me shamelessly. I like it. Good.

Kenneth Oppel

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Flatter Good Like Me

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Kenneth Oppel
Canadian - Author
Born: August 31, 1967

I don't like writing for myself to sing. I prefer to have other people's voices to dispose of in some way that they'll like or not like or flatter them or not flatter them. It's fun.

Matthew Friedberger

I don't call you handsome, sir, though I love you most dearly: far too dearly to flatter you. Don't flatter me.

Charlotte Bronte

Everything Trump said and did was framed in a way to flatter him, and more importantly, flatter his worldview.

Jennifer Pozner

To me, there are four F's in a good tax system: it ought to be flatter, fairer, finite and family-friendly.

Mike Huckabee

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

A dog will flatter you but you have to flatter the cat.

George Mikes

Mr. Lely, I desire you would use all your skill to paint my picture truly like me, and not flatter me at all; but remark all these roughnesses, pimples, warts, and everything as you see me, otherwise I will never pay a farthing for it.

Oliver Cromwell

You think of the book you'd most like to be reading, and then you sit down and shamelessly write it.

J. D. Salinger

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

The rich man despises those who flatter him too much, and hates those who do not flatter him at all.

Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

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.

Tan France

I am shamelessly biased about the people in my life, and it makes sense to me that other people are the same.

Akhil Sharma

At the party, Rob Partridge said to me, "You gave hope to other balding men." My new epitaph: "Co-wrote a couple of decent songs and went bald shamelessly."

Brian Eno

[Photography] allows me to accede to an infra-knowledge; it supplies me with a collection of partial objects and can flatter a certain fetishism of mine: for this 'me' which like knowledge, which nourishes a kind of amorous preference for it. In the same way, I like certain biographical features which, in a writer's life, delight me as much as certain photographs; I have called these features 'biographemes'; Photography has the same relation to History that the biographeme has to biography.

Roland Barthes

It's good for the soul to hear yourself as others hear you, and next time maybe, just maybe, you will not talk so much, so loudly, so brilliantly, so charmingly, so utterly shamelessly foolishly.