Inexperienced girls flatter themselves with the notion that it is in their power to make a man happy. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Some indeed there are who profess to despise all flattery, but even these are nevertheless to be flattered, by being told that… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
The skilful class of flatterers praise the discourse of an ignorant friend and the face of a deformed one. — Juvenal Copy Share Image
If my life is fruitless, it doesn't matter who praises me, and if my life is fruitful, it doesn't matter who criticizes… — John Bunyan Copy Share Image
Oh my lady what such mercy you upon me but before I befall to your lovey charms I much say you do… — Michael Country Copy Share Image
Persons who discover a flatterer, do not always disapprove him, because he imagines them considerable enough to deserve his applications. — William Shenstone Copy Share Image
[Samuel] Johnson's conversation was by much too strong for a person accustomed to obsequiousness and flattery; it was mustard in a young… — Hester Lynch Piozzi Copy Share Image
“baloney is flattery so thick it cannot be true; blarney is flatter so thin we like it.” — Monsignor Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
It was the maxim, I think, of Alphonsus of Aragon, that dead counsellors are safest. The grave puts an end to flattery… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
When Someone Copies What You Do, It Means They Really Admire Yours Or the way You Do Things! So Don't Get Mad...… — Pacifiersucker Copy Share Image
Whenever you commend, add your reasons for doing so; it is this which distinguishes the approbation of a man of sense from… — Richard Steele Copy Share Image
“As for those who spite you, and seemingly just because, it's only evident that they're learning from you. Maybe you taste bad… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
The Marquis believed himself to be hardened against flattery. He thought that he had experienced every variety, but he discovered that he… — Georgette Heyer Copy Share Image
People who wish to numb our caution in dealing with them by means of flattery are employing a dangerous expedient, like a… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“So he wanted a night of sex with the voluptuous Lady Grafton, it looked as though the old mainstay of suave flattery… — Susan Johnson Copy Share Image
Abject flattery and indiscriminate assentation degrade, as much as indiscriminate contradiction and noisy debate disgust. But a modest assertion of one's own… — Doug Stanhope Copy Share Image
“If imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, then the rise of a trout to the tied fly, is the purest form… — R.E. Long Copy Share Image
When someone flatters you, beware ! Even wild grass is first watered so its roots are easier to pull out — Haresh Bharathan Copy Share Image
We never slam the door on flattery, we nudge it shut like a man rejecting his mistress: if she nudges back, we're… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Morris read through the letter. Was it a shade too fulsome? No, that was another law of academic life: it is impossible… — David Lodge Copy Share Image
One of the biggest form of flattery is knowing that just by being your normal, wonderful self, you make someone fall in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The rich man despises those who flatter him too much, and hates those who do not flatter him at all. — Charles Maurice de Talleyrand Copy Share Image
I have always found it interesting... that there are people who regard copyright infringement as a form of flattery. — Tom Lehrer Copy Share Image
We make ourselves fools to disport ourselves And spend our flatteries to drink those men Upon whose age we void it up… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Among all the diseases of the mind there is not one more epidemical or more pernicious than the love of flattery. — Richard Steele Copy Share Image
Beware of flattery! 'tis a flowery weed, Which oft offends the very idol-vice, Whose shrine it would perfume. — Elijah Fenton Copy Share Image
Many a maid have I won by a quarrel, when flattery was in no wise helpful; but take heed that thou art… — Gelett Burgess Copy Share Image
The flatterer easily insinuates himself into the closet, while honest merit stands shivering in the hall or antechamber. — Jane Porter Copy Share Image
Am I the only person in the world who is shocked and amazed at the ongoing flattery of uebergeek Mark Zuckerberg? — Tom Hodgkinson Copy Share Image
No matter what other nations may say about the United States, immigration is still the sincerest form of flattery. — Clayton Cramer Copy Share Image
Everyone likes flattery, and when you come to Royalty, you should lay it on with a thick trowel — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
Flattery, if judiciously administered, is always acceptable, however much we may despise the flatterer. — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
Every woman is infallibly to be gained by every sort of flattery, and every man by one sort or other. — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
What wouldst thou do, old man? Think'st thou that duty shall have dread to speak When power to flattery bows? — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Fearing no insult, asking for no crown, receive with indifference both flattery and slander, and do not argue with a fool. — Alexander Pushkin Copy Share Image
The heart of a woman is never so full of affection that there does not remain a little corner for flattery and… — Pierre de Marivaux Copy Share Image
The love of one's own sex is precious, for it is neither provoked by vanity nor retained by flattery; it is genuine… — Maria Mitchell Copy Share Image
Flattery looks like friendship, just like a wolf looks like a dog. Food for thought is no substitute for the real thing. — Walt Kelly Copy Share Image
Probably one of the reasons why gushing is so unattractive is that it leaves nothing for the listener to do. — Margery Wilson Copy Share Image
Working with Dilip Kumar sahib I observed that he was not someone who would be happy with flattery. He only liked good… — Manoj Kumar Copy Share Image
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