Deborah Smith Quotes
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Flattery is like chewing gum. Enjoy it but don't swallow it.
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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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I've pretty much been portrayed as every style thing you can be. After Wimbledon you are Andy Everyman, who everybody is rooting for. I think the meat and potatoes of who I am hasn't been covered yet.
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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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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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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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Flattery, if judiciously administered, is always acceptable, however much we may despise the flatterer.
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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.
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There's a certain balance between finding an opportunity to do what you really enjoy and getting caught up in the flattery of people wanting you to do things.
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Your body is sacred. You’re far more precious than diamonds and pearls, and you should be covered too.
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There is no flattery so adroit or effectual as that of implicit assent.
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Flattery of the verbal kind is gross. In short, applause is of too coarse a nature to be swallowed in the gross, though the extract or tincture be ever so agreeable.
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Imitation is the sincerest flattery.
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But here's the joy: my friend and I are one, Sweet flattery!
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He does me double wrong That wounds me with the flatteries of his tongue.
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Two-thirds of the Earth is covered by water. The other third is covered by Garry Maddox.
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As soon as coffee is in your stomach, there is a general commotion. Ideas begin to move…similes arise, the paper is covered. Coffee is your ally and writing ceases to be a struggle.
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By the end of our lives, we're covered in battle scars and shrapnel.
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People who have had power, when they become powerless, are really tragic.... We just allow ourselves to be conditioned by a society so we become as important as we're supposed to be.
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What is childlike humility? It’s not the lack of intelligence, but the lack of guile. The lack of an agenda.
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The further one goes, the less (he realizes he) one knows.
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Flattery is a lie covered in a bed of flowery words.
