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Last updated on April 19, 2025.
Thus when we fondly flatter our desires, Our best conceits do prove the greatest liars.
When I was getting overly 'droppy,' that's when I was hitting shots left and right. That's what we were doing, so maybe if my swing was a touch flatter, I wouldn't drop the club as much.
It is a remarkable fact that all the heresies which have arisen in the Christian Church have had a decided tendency to dishonor God and to flatter man.
Where Young must torture his invention To flatter knaves, or lose his pension.
The bards sing of love, they celebrate slaughter, they extol kings and flatter queens, but were I a poet I would write in praise of friendship.
The praise we seek for our own virtues sometimes tempts us to flatter the imperfections of other men.
Although men flatter themselves with their great actions, they are not so often the result of a great design as of chance.
men are undoubtedly more in danger from prosperity than from adversity. for when matters go smoothly, they flatter themselves, and are intoxicated by their success
Don't be afraid of enemies who attack you. Be afraid of the friends who flatter you.
The more we love our friends, the less we flatter them; it is by excusing nothing that pure love shows itself.
Americans deserve a simple, fairer, and flatter tax code that jumpstarts our economy, helps create jobs, and makes America a leader again.
People generally despise where they flatter, and cringe to those they would gladly overtop; so that truth and ceremony are two things.
Underwear is such a great gift, but try to go for brands that flatter your girlfriend's shape - a little structure can be great.
Madam, before you flatter a man so grossly to his face, you should consider whether or not your flattery is worth his having.
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.
Let me tell you how the French seduce you. They are the most bloody seductive people on Earth. They are charming, they are well-mannered and they praise and flatter you.
You can always draw as well as you know how to. I flatter myself that I feel more than I express on canvas; but I know that is not so.
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.
It's the best proposal that we ought to have, because it's flatter, it's fairer, it's finite, it's family-friendly. And instead we've had Congress that's spent money like [John] Edwards at a beauty shop.
I've never worn Prada, I'm more TK Maxx than Harrods, I've always found clothes from the catwalk don't usually flatter my shape.
For friends... do but look upon good Books: they are true friends, that will neither flatter nor dissemble.
Because I cannot flatter and look fair,
Smile in men's faces, smooth, deceive, and cog,
Duck with French nods and apish courtesy,
I must be held a rancorous enemy.
Mathematicians may flatter themselves that they possess new ideas which mere human language is as yet unable to express.
Power is so pleasant that men quickly learn to be greedy in the enjoyment of it, and to flatter themselves that patriotism requires them to be imperious.
Seek but provision of bread and wine, fools to flatter, and clothing fine; and nothing of God shall ever be thine.
Madam, you flatter yourself. I do not want to marry you or anyone else. I am not a marrying man. - Rhett Butler
Having a lower tax, simpler, fairer, flatter tax system is something that can drive growth.
I am afraid we are little better than straws upon the water; we may flatter ourselves that we swim, when the current carries us along.
Most women wish to feel that their spirit has been violated. Do they not, indeed, flatter themselves on never yielding save to force?
Compliments and flattery oftenest excite my contempt by the pretension they imply; for who is he that assumes to flatter me? To compliment often implies an assumption of superiority in the complimenter. It is, in fact, a subtle detraction.
There are very few designers in Hollywood today who know how to really flatter a woman's body, and Mark Zunino is at the top of my list.
The vices of which we are full we carefully hide from others, and we flatter ourselves with the notion that they are small and trivial; we sometimes even embrace them as virtues.
Let no one flatter himself; of himself he is Satan. Let man take sin, which is his own, and leave righteousness with God.
There is scarcely any man, how much soever he may despise the character of a flatterer, but will condescend in the meanest manner to flatter himself.
Some men mistake generosity for charity: these flatter themselves that they are giving gratuitously, whilst they are merely rewarding secret services offered their vanity.
I should be glad if I could flatter myself that I came as near the central idea of the occasion, in two hours, as you did in two minutes.
Among the many strange servilities mistaken for pieties, one of the least lovely is that which hopes to flatter God by despising the world, and vilifying human nature.
Because all men are apt to flatter themselves, to entertain the addition of other men's praises is most perilous.
Dumbing down takes many forms: art that is good for you, museums that flatter you, universities that increase your self-esteem. Culture, after all, is really about you.
The customer is the immediate jewel of our souls. Him we flatter, him we feast, compliment, vote for, and will not contradict.
I assumed that everything must yield to me, that the entire universe had to flatter my whims, and that I had the right to satisfy them at will.
Arrogance sort of destroys that nervousness because you're having a bunch of people flatter you and tell you you're awesome, and it keeps you from striving as hard for the kind of validation you seek from a good show.
So you shouldn't really flatter yourself that they want to be your buddy. They don't. Generally. They want you for some reason or other, and you just have to fend that off all the time.
We are apt to be deluded into false security by political catch-words, devised to flatter rather than instruct.
I think it takes time to find your natural style and learn not to be swayed by trends that might not flatter you.
It is not for minds like ours to give or to receive flatter; yet the praises of sincerity have ever been permitted to the voice of friendship
Flatter not thyself in thy faith in God if thou hast not charity for thy neighbor.
If you flatter me, or if you look at me the right way, I will kill myself to please you. It's very painful to be an overachiever.
I think impersonation is a great art. It's something that I enjoy doing, in a frivolous and lighthearted way. But I don't flatter myself to think I'm an impersonator.
The award of a pure gold medal for poetry would flatter the recipient unduly: no poem ever attains such carat purity.
Buddha says: "Do not flatter your benefactor!". Let one repeat this saying in a Christian church : it immediately purifies the air of everything Christian.
The difference between slaves in Roman and Ottoman days and today's employees is that slaves did not need to flatter their boss.
Our Times, a Brief History: As televisions became flatter, People became rounder.
No man of high and generous spirit is ever willing to indulge in flattery; the good may feel affection for others, but will not flatter them.
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.
A good historian is timeless; although he is a patriot, he will never flatter his country in any respect.
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.
If you see our best seller list, most of them are books that are given as gifts. They are books you give to flatter somebody.
Though men are apt to flatter and exalt themselves with their great achievements, yet these are, in truth, very often owing not so much to design as chance.
Evil men of every degree will use you, flatter you, lead you on until you are useless; then, if the virtuous do not pity you, or God compassionate, you are without a friend in the universe.
