Where Young must torture his invention To flatter knaves, or lose his pension. — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
Not kings alone--the people, too, have their flatterers. — Victor de Riqueti, marquis de Mirabeau Copy Share Image
A sincere compliment is always grateful to a lady, so long as you don't try to knock her down with it. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Wounded pride can take a rich young man far who is surrounded by flatterers since birth. — Stendhal Copy Share Image
To thee, fair Freedom! I retire From flattery, cards, and dice, and din: Nor art thou found in mansions higher Than the… — William Shenstone Copy Share Image
“Flatterers should be mistrusted, especially when they praise the dead. To seek a place in society is self-serving, but to seek one… — Bauvard Copy Share Image
Do not offer a compliment and ask a favor at the same time. A compliment that is charged for is not valuable. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I thought this convention phenomenon was very flattering, but that's about the extent of it. — George Takei Copy Share Image
A little flattery, like a warm bath and soft towel, will let you get along with yourself, lie down with yourself, and… — Willis Regier Copy Share Image
Let flattery, the handmaid of the vices, be far removed (from friendship). [Lat., Assentatio, vitiorum adjutrix, procul amoveatur.] — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
You think I love flattery (says Dr. Johnson), and so I do; but a little too much always disgusts me: that fellow… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Rejection can lead to emotional stress for both parties involved and emotional stress can lead to physical complications such as headaches, ulcers,… — Paperboi Copy Share Image
My cut is blunt and futuristic, and Nicki Minaj started wearing that bob on her head after she came to my show,… — Lil Mama Copy Share Image
It is possible to be below flattery as well as above it. One who trusts nobody will not trust sycophants. One who… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
That little hypocrites and half-crazed people dare to imagine that on their account the laws of nature are constantly broken; such an… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The mischief of flattery is, not that it persuades any man that he is what he is not, but that it suppresses… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Astronomy was born of superstition; eloquence of ambition, hatred, falsehood, and flattery; geometry of avarice; physics of an idle curiosity; and even… — Jean-Baptiste Rousseau Copy Share Image
When will the public cease to insult the teacher's calling with empty flattery? When will men who would never for a moment… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Gossip is what you say about the objects of flattery when they aren't present. — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
When we seek appreciation from others, we get not appreciation, but flattery. — Sri Chinmoy Copy Share Image
If any man flatters me, I'll flatter him again; tho' he were my best Friend. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Like pollen on a honeybee, flattery clings to the things you tell yourself. — Willis Regier Copy Share Image
Between flattery and admiration there often flows a river of contempt. — Minna Antrim Copy Share Image
The flattery is nice, but awards don't add up to writing quality songs. — Chantal Kreviazuk Copy Share Image
We sometimes imagine we hate flattery, but we only hate the way we are flattered. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
To ask advice is in nine cases out of ten to tout for flattery. — John Churton Collins Copy Share Image
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