Who do you serve? Do you serve somebody? I serve the poem, no one..

I never have anything to talk about..

What God originates, God orchestrates..

Flattery is like wine, which exhilarates a man for a moment, but usually ends by going to his head and making him act foolishly..

I like my work to stand on its own as much as possible..

There is beauty in everything, Just not everybody sees it.

Swallows and Amazons for-ever!.

Some changes are so slow, you don't notice them, others are so fast, they don't notice you..

Among all the diseases of the mind there is not one more epidemical or more pernicious than the love of flattery..

Flattery was formerly a vice; it has now become the fashion..

Flattery is all right so long as you don't inhale..

What valor cannot win, flattery may..

When fortune flatters, she does it to betray..

It is no flattery to give a friend a due character; for commendation is as much the duty of a friend as reprehension..

Perfumed and gallant words make our ears belch..

There is no food more satiating than milk and honey; and just as such foods produce disgust for the palate, so perfumed and gallant words make our ea….

I don't think imitation is the highest form of flattery, I think it's annoying..

What I like is bottomless flattery..

Imitation is obviously a great form of flattery..

Few human beings are proof against the implied flattery of rapt attention..

Praise to the undeserving is severe satire..