F Quotes
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“Flashy pictures of materialistic wealth, lavish vacations, and ‘perfect’ relationships paint a very unhealthy picture of expectation for society.”
“Flat beer - ugh!”
“Flat Earth theory serves well enough for a trip from the cave to the water hole and back, and a third dimension going up into the sky and down underground serves to accommodate gods and devils A lot of people still think like that, believe it or not.”
“Flat fields produce mediocre grapes, but rolling hills produce the greatest grapes. Why? Because the vines must struggle for survival.”
“Flat muscled and honey coloured. Sea secrets in his eyes. A silver raindrop in his ear.”
“Flat or round, there has always been hate in the world.”
Source: Tales from the Flat Earth: The Lords of Darkness Night's Master Death's Master Delusion's Master
“Flat ubi vult”
Source: The Hunchback of Notre-Dame
“Flat was good; flat meant she didn’t care, meant she wouldn’t get sucked under this time, but she knew not to hope too much.”
Source: The Shoreline
“Flat, uninteresting parts of paintings are, in fact, a ruse to get the viewer to see what needs to be seen.”
“FLATOW: So you would - how would you treat a patient like Sybil if she showed up in your office
BRAND: Well, first I would start with a very thorough assessment, using the current standardized measures that we have available to us that assess for the range of dissociative disorders but the whole range of other psychological disorders, too. I would need to know what I'm working with, and I'd be very careful and make my decisions slowly, based on data about what she has. And furthermore, with therapists who are well-trained in dissociative disorders, we do keep an eye open for suggestibility. But that research, too, is not anywhere near as strong as what the other two people in the interview are suggesting.It shows - for example, there's eight studies that have a total of 11 samples. In the three clinical samples that have looked at the correlation between dissociation and suggestibility, all three clinical samples found non-significant correlations. So it's just not as strong as what people think. That's a myth that's not backed up by science."
Exploring Multiple Personalities In 'Sybil Exposed' October 21, 2011 by Ira Flatow”
“Flatten your ego a bit, will ya? It's getting crowded in here.”
“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.”
“Flatter me, but delicately, please, for I am fastidious.”
“Flatter not thyself in thy faith in God if thou hast not charity for thy neighbor.”
“Flatter not thyself in thy faith to God, if thou wantest charity for thy neighbor; and think not thou halt charity for thy neighbor, if thou wantest faith to God; where they are not both together, they are both wanting; they are both dead, if once divided.”
“Flatter yourself critically.”
Source: In Praise of Flattery
“Flatterers and men of learning do not accord well with each other.”
“Flatterers are the worst kind of enemies.
[Lat., Pessimum genus inimicorum laudantes.]”
“Flatterers are the worst kind of traitors, for they will strengthen thy imperfections, encourage thee in all evils, correct thee in nothing, but so shadow and paint thy follies and vices as thou shalt never, by their will, discover good from evil, or vice from virtue.”
“Flatterers look like friends, as wolves like dogs.”
Source: The Works of George Chapman: Plays
“Flattery and deceit are the darlings of great men, and so with these men spread the butter on thick, if you want to get something out of them, otherwise you'll come home to me with a full belly and an empty purse.”
Source: The School of Whoredom
“Flattery and insults raise the same question: What do you want?”
“Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.”
Source: Reflections on the Revolution in France: And on the Proceedings in Certain Societies in London Relative to that Event. In a Letter Intended to Have Been Sent to a Gentleman in Paris
“Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver; and adulation is not of more service to the people than to kings.”
Source: The Works of Edmund Burke
“Flattery does not encourage the perfect flow of love in the vein of your relationship. Be genuine and speak out what you feel for each other without hiding the painful truth.”
“Flattery has a short battery life, but reminding people they are amazing and precious and wanted and works of art can truly change their lives.”
“Flattery has to overcome my mistrust, and it does.”
“Flattery in courtship is the highest insolence, for whilst it pretends to bestow on you more than you deserve, it is watching an opportunity to take from you what you really have.”
Source: The Cry: A New Dramatic Fable
“Flattery is a base coin which is current only through our vanity.”
“Flattery is a challenge. The proper turning away from it, undercutting, diminishing it without offense or vehemence, is a social grace sweeter even than the swift determination to keep ahead in the race of hospitality.”
Source: Bartleby in Manhattan, and Other Essays
“Flattery is a counterfeit money which, but for vanity, would have no circulation.”
“Flattery is a foolish suicide; she destroys herself with her own hands.”
Source: The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
“Flattery is a juggler, and no kin unto sincerity.”
Source: Religio Medici [and] Its Sequel Christian Morals
“Flattery is a kind of bad money, to which our vanity gives us currency.”
“Flattery is a lie covered in a bed of flowery words.”
“Flattery is all right so long as you don't inhale.”
“Flattery is an ensnaring quality, and leaves a very dangerous impression. It swells a man's imagination, entertains his vanity, and drives him to a doting upon his own person.”
“Flattery is counterfeit, and like counterfeit money, it will eventually get you into trouble if you pass it to someone else.”
Source: How to enjoy your life and your job
“Flattery is false money, which would not be current were it not for our vanity.”
“Flattery is from the teeth out. Sincere appreciation is from the heart out.”
“Flattery is like a painted armor; only for show.”
“Flattery is like chewing gum. Enjoy it but don't swallow it.”
“Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt of, not swallowed.”
“Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt, not swallowed.”
Source: Uncle Sam's Uncle Josh: Or, Josh Billings on Practically Everything, Distilled from Josh's Rum and Tansy New England Wit by Donald Day
“Flattery is like friendship in show, but not in fruit.”
“Flattery is no more than what raises in a man's mind an idea of a preference which he has not.”
Source: A Philosophical Inquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas
“Flattery is often a traffic of mutual meanness, where although both parties intend deception, neither are deceived.”
Source: Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think
“Flattery is praise without foundation.”
Source: The Behaviour Book: a manual for ladies
“Flattery is saying something nice in order to help yourself. Encouragement is saying something true in order help someone else.”
“Flattery is so necessary to us that we flatter one another just to be flattered in return.”
Source: World's Wonder and Other Essays