To be most effective, flattery is always best applied with a trowel.

“Perhaps, I thought, whenever we began to breathe the breath of others, when the…”

“Mother Goose!I have never much cared for flippant remarks, especially when othe…”

“I am often thought of as being remarkably bright, and yet my brains, more often…”

“Yaroo!" I shouted, and I didn't give a beetle's bottom who heard me. "Ya-rooo!”