Gallantry of mind consists in saying flattering things in an agreeable manner. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Flattery is false money, which would not be current were it not for our vanity. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Good things come to those who wait, So Im ready to sleep outside you gate, — Paperboi Copy Share Image
The most dangerous of all flattery is the inferiority of those about us. — Sophie Swetchine Copy Share Image
Everyone likes flattery; and when you come to Royalty you should lay it on with a trowel. — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
The world is grown so full of dissimulation and compliment, that men's words are hardly any signification of their thoughts. — Richard Steele Copy Share Image
Flattery is counterfeit, and like counterfeit money, it will eventually get you into trouble if you pass it to someone else. — Dale Carnegie Copy Share Image
Nature has hardly formed a woman ugly enough to be insensible to flattery upon her person. — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
Flattery was one of Kissinger's principal tools in winning over Nixon, and a tool he employed shamelessly. — Robert Dallek Copy Share Image
Direct, forceful, energetic. Loves power, eats up publicity and flattery... Can turn on charm at will and knows it. — Joseph Stilwell Copy Share Image
Dont get confused between flattery and kindness these are the new kind of deceptions. — Chops Copy Share Image
Should the poor be flattered? No; let the candied tongue lick absurd pomp, and crook the pregnant hinges of the knee where… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“Flattery, then, is like the other strategies discussed above in that it should be ineffective; unlike the others, however, it usually works.… — Thomas Gilovich Copy Share Image
To experience commitment as the loss of options, a type of death, the death of childhood's limitless possibility, of the flattery of… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
Say not unto thyself, Behold, truth breedeth hatred, and I will avoid it; dissimulation raiseth friends, and I will follow it. Are… — Akhenaton Copy Share Image
We have lost the old love of work, of work which kept itself company, which was fair weather and music in the… — John Lancaster Spalding Copy Share Image
I never pretended to be rock star. I would make a lousy rock star. I don't have the right voice for it.… — Joan Baez Copy Share Image
Slander, in the strict meaning of the term, comes under the head of lying; but it is a kind of lying which,… — Washington Gladden Copy Share Image
Now, in my opinion, a woman has no business with Power-Power admits no equal, and dismisses friendship for flattery. Besides, it keeps… — George Edward Moore Copy Share Image
From every ancient source, we have testimony to Cleopatra's irresistible charm, as Plutarch has it, to her ability to speak many languages… — Stacy Schiff Copy Share Image
“When we get there, don’t go in huffing and puffing like the big bad wolf.” — J.L. Sheppard Copy Share Image
I dont think imitation is the highest form of flattery, I think its annoying. — Pink Copy Share Image
“Flattery looks like friendship, just like a wolf looks like a dog.” — Oscar Auliq-Ice Copy Share Image
If we never flattered ourselves we should have but scant pleasure. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
flattery would be worse than vain; there is no consolation in flattery. — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
Flattery is a foolish suicide; she destroys herself with her own hands. — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
