To pay attention to flattery or criticism is a waste of time for artists. — John McLaughlin Copy Share Image
Look closely at those who patronize you. Half are unfeeling, half untaught. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Flattery is a base coin which is current only through our vanity. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
They told me I was everything. 'Tis a lie, I am not ague-proof. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Now flattery can never do good; twice cursed in the giving and the receiving, it ought to be. — Maria Edgeworth Copy Share Image
I see this evident, that we willingly accord to piety only the services that flatter our passions. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Whitney: You black-hearted, treacherous, conniving scoundrel. Clayton: Your flattery warms my heart — Judith McNaught Copy Share Image
I believe that love--not imitation--is the sincerest form of flattery. Your imitator thinks that you can be duplicated; your lover knows you… — Marilyn vos Savant Copy Share Image
People generally despise where they flatter, and cringe to those they would gladly overtop; so that truth and ceremony are two things. — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
“A clever schoolboy's reaction to his reading is most naturally expressed by parody or imitation.” — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Very ugly or very beautiful women should be flattered on their understanding, and mediocre ones on their beauty. — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
Flattery will get me nowhere? That's a hell of a lot better than the place I am now. — John Alejandro King Aka The Covert Comic Copy Share Image
“An acquaintance merely enjoys your company, a fair-weather companion flatters when all is well, a true friend has your best interests at… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The simulated approval and affection with which parents and teachers are often urged to solve behavior problems are counterfeit. So are flattery,… — B. F. Skinner Copy Share Image
Men who stand in the highest ranks of society seldom hear of their faults; if by any accident an opprobrious clamour reaches… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The world's flattery and hypocrisy is a sweet morsel: eat less of it, for it is full of fire. Its fire is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“He shook his head, but I kept flattering him, telling him how fine his beard was, how fair his skin was (ha!),… — Aravind Adiga Copy Share Image
Flattery, though a base coin, is the necessary pocket money at court; where, by custom and consent, it has obtained such a… — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
“Let your eyes be blind to all external attractions, your ears deaf to all the fascinations of flattery and light discourse.—These are… — Anne Brontë Copy Share Image
And this is woman's fate: all her affections are called into life by winning flatteries, and then thrown back upon themselves to… — Letitia Elizabeth Landon Copy Share Image
“After this manner conceive that a flatterer differs from a friend: for it often happens to both that they engage in the… — Maximus Tyrius Copy Share Image
“Never fear that: if he be so resolved, I can o'ersway him; for he loves to hear That unicorns may be betray'd… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
As kings are begotten and born like other men, it is to be presumed that they are of the human species; and… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
The best way to sell yourself to others is first to sell the others to yourself. Check yourself against this list of… — Harold Geneen Copy Share Image
It is visible then that it was not any Heathen Religion or other Idolatrous Superstition, that first put Man upon crossing his… — Bernard de Mandeville Copy Share Image
Ho, Ho, Sir Surgeon. You are too delicate to tell the man that he is ill. You hope to heal the sick… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
One of the highest of human duties is the duty of encouragement...It is easy to laugh at men's ideals; it is easy… — William Barclay Copy Share Image
There is nothing in the world more difficult than candor, and nothing easier than flattery. If there is a hundredth of a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
