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Letter "F" » flattered
«I don't see it, but I'm flattered nonetheless. To look like Michelle Pfeiffer is quite nice.»
«An Englishman, / Being flattered, is a lamb; threatened, a lion.»
«I suppose that writers should, in a way, feel flattered by the censorship laws. They show a primitive fear and dread at the fearful magic of print.»
Author: John Mortimer
| About:
Censorship,
Fear,
Law and lawyers,
Writers
| Keywords:
censorship, dread, fearful, flattered, in a way, primitive, print
«I don't find offensive that I'm being labelled a babe by blokes. I'm absolutely flattered.»
«I once had a rose named after me and I was very flattered. But I was not pleased to read the description in the catalogue: no good in a bed, but fine up against a wall.»
Author: Eleanor Roosevelt
(Diplomat, First Lady, Humanitarian)
| About:
Flattery
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Against A, bed, bed of roses, catalogue, catalogued, catalogues, description, descriptions, fine, flattered, named, named after, no-good, pleased, rose, wall
«He flattered himself on being a man without any prejudices; and this pretension itself is a very great prejudice»
«I have not loved the world, nor the world me; / I have not flattered its rank breath, nor bowed / To its idolatries a patient knee, / Nor coined my cheek to smiles, nor cried aloud / In worship of an echo.»
«It is well known, that many things appear plausible in speculation, which can never be reduced to practice; and that of the numberless projects that have flattered mankind with theoretical speciousness, few have served any other purpose than to show»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
| Keywords:
flattered, numberless, plausible, speciousness, speculation, theoretical, well known
«He that loves to be flattered is worthy o' the flatterer.»
«But when I tell him he hates flatterers, He says he does, being then most flattered»
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