“He flatters me because he knows I am flattered by him flattering me. And that flatters him. So when he flatters me, he is really flattering himself.”
“there is scarce any man, how much soever he may despise the character of a flatterer, but will condescend in the meanest manner to flatter himself”
“A fool flatters himself, a wise man flatters the fool.”
“I thought I recognized you."Really? He remembered me looking like Swamp Thing? How flattering.”
“You should be flattered, he said mildly. Not many breathers affect me this way.”
“He liked me because I am short. I flatter myself. He did not dislike me. He liked no one except Josephine and he liked her the way he liked chicken.”