Famous Quotes & Sayings

Louis Menand

The short story is not as restrictive as the sonnet, but, of all the literary forms, it is possibly the most single-minded. ...at the end there has to be the literary equivalent of the magician's puff of smoke, an outcome that is both startling and anticipated.

Oliver Goldsmith

Of praise a mere glutton, he swallow'd what came, And the puff a dunce, he mistook it for fame; Till his relish grown callous, almost to displease, Who pepper'd the highest was surest to please.

Puff Daddy

It feels like I could go outside with a bikini thong on right now.

Busy Philipps

I love little Peter Pan collars and little puff sleeves.

Douglas Adams

Oh dear,' says God, 'I hadn't thought of that,' and promptly vanishes in a puff of logic.

Annie Dillard

Hone and spread your spirit till you yourself are a sail, whetted, translucent, broadside to the merest puff.

Amanda Fuller

I always wanted my work to speak for itself, and have opportunities to do interesting work and not just puff pieces.

Publilius Syrus

He who has plenty of pepper will pepper his cabbage.

William Hazlitt

There is no flattery so adroit or effectual as that of implicit assent.

Jorge Luis Borges

The flattery of posterity is not worth much more than contemporary flattery, which is worth nothing.

Thomas a Kempis

Don't flatter the rich, or appear to willing before the great.

Peter O'Toole

What I like is bottomless flattery.

Frank Lloyd Wright

Imitation is always insult--not flattery.

Charles Lederer

Flattery'll get you anywhere.

Adlai E. Stevenson

Flattery is all right if you don't inhale

Christopher Paolini

Of course you like him; everyone enjoys flattery.

Thomas Browne

Flattery is a juggler, and no kin unto sincerity.