Excellent flatterers welcome attentive audiences; mighty potentates enjoy public praise. In the most pleasing situation, a flatterer would genuinely admire the flatteree, please that person, please other present company, be pleased to stagger rivals, and get something out of it: applause, promotion, a favor, reciprocal praise. Flattery is as social as a banquet.
Misquotation is quotology’s swamp. Amateur quoters mix and mangle Shakespeare and Scripture. Professors gaffe and printers bungle. It’s a mess we mus… - Willis Regier
Misquotation is quotology’s swamp. Amateur quoters mix and mangle Shakespeare and Scripture. Professors gaffe and printers bungle. It’s a mess we mus…
- Willis Regier
If you flatter yourself properly you will be better able to enjoy yourself. Stretch your joy so that others enjoy you too. - Willis Regier
If you flatter yourself properly you will be better able to enjoy yourself. Stretch your joy so that others enjoy you too.
Quotation lovers love rare words. - Willis Regier
Quotation lovers love rare words.
Great quotation collections glean the millennia, distill essences, and battle for bragging rights about who’s bigger, who’s smarter, who’s best. Who-… - Willis Regier
Great quotation collections glean the millennia, distill essences, and battle for bragging rights about who’s bigger, who’s smarter, who’s best. Who-…
In phrases as brief as a breath worldly wisdom concentrates. - Willis Regier
In phrases as brief as a breath worldly wisdom concentrates.
At its best, flattery is truth well dressed, and it is best dressed with fine see-through fabrics. Honest flattery can caress a lover, cover up a gaf… - Willis Regier
At its best, flattery is truth well dressed, and it is best dressed with fine see-through fabrics. Honest flattery can caress a lover, cover up a gaf…
Flattery works like a drug. - Willis Regier
Flattery works like a drug.
Excellent flatterers welcome attentive audiences; mighty potentates enjoy public praise. In the most pleasing situation, a flatterer would genuinely … - Willis Regier
Excellent flatterers welcome attentive audiences; mighty potentates enjoy public praise. In the most pleasing situation, a flatterer would genuinely …
Quotologists encounter happy surprises, bright books by faded authors, treasures hidden under dust. - Willis Regier
Quotologists encounter happy surprises, bright books by faded authors, treasures hidden under dust.
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