Charles R. Forbes (Charles Robert Forbes) Quotes
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Flattery is like chewing gum. Enjoy it but don't swallow it.
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Im attracted to things that are challenging and fun and interesting, and it certainly seems that audiences enjoy them as well.
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If you want to make an ordinary man happy, or think that he is happy, give him money, power, flattery, gifts, honours. If you want to make a wise man happy - improve yourself!
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Just try to keep the heart turned outward, as well as having moments inward.
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[Mitt] Romney looks the part and is well known around the world and has a lot of experience.
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I don't play well enough to be allowed to throw my clubs.
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As Shakespeare says, if you're going to do a thing you might as well pop right at it and get it over.
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Our domestic Napoleons, too many of them, give flattery, bonnets and bracelets to women, and everything else but - justice.
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I can't really characterize any country, except to say that we work well with a number of our foreign counterparts.
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On a film set everyone is very cool. Well, blase really.
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Let it not, therefore, be said that the Sovereign is not subject to the laws of his State; since the contrary is a true proposition of the right of nations, which flattery has sometimes attacked but good princes have always defended as the tutelary divinity of their dominions. How much more legitimate is it to say with the wise Plato, that the perfect felicity of a kingdom consists in the obedience of subjects to their prince, and of the prince to the laws, and in the laws being just and constantly directed to the public good!
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Take the course opposite to custom and you will almost always do well.
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You can't sweeten the well by painting the pump.
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I'm a hustler, baby; I sell water to a well!
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Well, I wouldn't want to say that I started it (rock 'n' roll), but I don't remember anyone else before me playing that kind of stuff.
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Well, there's a little bit of man in every woman and a little bit of woman in every man.
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Flattery'll get you anywhere.
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Nature has hardly formed a woman ugly enough to be insensible to flattery upon her person; if her face is so shocking that she must in some degree be conscious of it, her figure and her air, she trusts, make ample amends for it.
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Each day I love you more, today more than yesterday and less than tomorrow.
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There are two types of girls: those that can make cheap clothes look expensive and those that make designer clothes look cheap.
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I had the good fortune to be thrown unexpectedly into something called the Labour Research Unit - a little known organisation set up to assist the fledgling labour movement. It was not a company, nor a statutory board, nor a government department - in fact it did not exist at all as a legal entity. Thus in slightly unorthodox circumstances I became part of that struggle.
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Wisdom is oftentimes nearer when we stoop than when we soar.
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German businesspeople have invested a great deal in our country, and trade is flourishing. We want to speed up economic cooperation. Your country is a large, important provider of aid, and it has done a great deal to reduce the poverty of many Vietnamese.
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It is possible to be below flattery as well as above it.
