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"To flatter a young man, tell him that you thought that he was older than he is. To flatter an old woman, tell her that you thought that she was younger than she is."
"He who says he hates every kind of flattery, and says it in earnest, certainly does not yet know every kind of flattery."
"I hate careless flattery, the kind that exhausts you in your efforts to believe it."
"Flattery is like chewing gum. Enjoy it but don't swallow it."
"One may define flattery as a base companionship which is most advantageous to the flatterer."
"Flattery is useful when dealing with youngsters."
"Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery."
"You're flattered because he wants to sleep with you? Who doesn't he want to sleep with?"
"Listening, not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery."
Explore more quotes by P. J. O'Rourke
"Computers seem a little too adaptively flexible, like the strange natives, odd societies, and head cases we study in the social sciences. There's more opposable thumb in the digital world than I care for; it's awfully close to human."
"Children live in the only successful Marxist state ever created: the family. 'From each according to his ability, to each according to his need' is the family's practice as well as its theory. Even with today's scattershot patterns of marriage and parenting, a family is collectivist to a more than North Korean degree."
"The great majority of Baghdad is a slum - a lot of it's new, but it's still slum. It's usually this concrete-block, one-room design with a door and a window, arranged one-up, one-down, often with a shop with nothing in it on the first floor, and then a one-room apartment above it. There's street after street after street of that stuff."
"America wasn't founded so that we could all be better. America was founded so we could all be anything we damned well pleased."
"There are a number of mechanical devices which increase sexual arousal particularly in women. Chief among these is the Mercedes-Benz 380 SL convertible."
"Fiscal conservatism is just an easy way to express something that is a bit more difficult, which is that the size and scope of government, and really the size and scope of politics in our lives, has grown uncomfortable, unwieldy, intrusive and inefficient."
"When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators."
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