Flatter To Deceive Quotes

#1. My first tattoo is a full-on Sailor Jerry situation on my hip - it's a swallow with big spread wings. When I got it I was 20 on St. Mark's Place in New York; I just walked in in a frenzy. It's still there 17 years later and it's not a terrible thing to look at.

Maria Dahvana Headley

#2. I'm trying to tell the story in the most clear, concise, and truthful way, taking those everyday words and phrases and capturing them in a way that they become something else.

Jay-Z

#3. you're a writer when we (I) know what you truly are: a performer, an exhibitionist.

Caroline Kepnes

#4. Life doesn't exist inside language: too bad for me.

Kathy Acker

#5. A democratic Europe of nation states could be a force for liberty, enterprise and open trade. But, if creating a United States of Europe overrides these goals, the new Europe will be one of subsidy and protection

Margaret Thatcher

#6. Because I cannot flatter and look fair,
Smile in men's faces, smooth, deceive, and cog,
Duck with French nods and apish courtesy,
I must be held a rancorous enemy.

William Shakespeare

#7. The weaknesses of the many make the leader possible.

Elbert Hubbard

#8. I love artists like Prince, who hold on to that element of mystery.

Bruno Mars

#9. You want meaning? Well, the meanings are out there. We're just so damn good at reading them wrong.

David Levithan

#10. Human life is thus only an endless illusion. Men deceive and flatter each other. No one speaks of us in our presence as he does when we are gone. Society is based on mutual hypocrisy.

Blaise Pascal

#11. She sort of had a mushroom childhood.'
'A what?'
'She was plunked down in the dark and fed a lot of bullshit.

Dana Marie Bell

#12. The Buddhist, who thanks no man, who says "Do not flatter your benefactors," but who, in his conviction that every good deed can by no possibility escape its reward, will not deceive the benefactor by pretending that he has done more than he should, is a Transcendentalist.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#13. We deceive and flatter no one by such delicate artificies as we do our own selves.

Arthur Schopenhauer