Confidence, as opposed, to modesty and distinguished from decent assurance, proceeds from self-opinion, and is occasioned by ignorance and flattery. — Jeremy Collier Copy Share Image
I can spot empty flattery and know exactly where I stand. In the end it's really only my own approval or disapproval… — Agnetha Faltskog Copy Share Image
The praise of an ignorant man is only good-will, and you should receive his kindness as he is a good neighbor in… — Richard Steele Copy Share Image
Ausonius must be read to be believed! As poet, no subject is too trivial for him; as courtier, no flattery too excessive. — Decimius Magnus Ausonius Copy Share Image
Women are hard and proud and stubborn-hearted, Their heads being turned with praise and flattery; And that is why their lovers are… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
Yes, Boss?' Dorcas, the last twenty or thirty years I've been a worthless, no-good parasite.' She yawned again. 'Everybody knows that.' Nevermind… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
In Hollywood, imitation is the most profitable form of flattery. That is the only plausible explanation. — Desson Thomson Copy Share Image
The flattery of posterity is not worth much more than contemporary flattery, which is worth nothing. — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
A fool can no more see his own folly than he can see his ears. — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
There is no detraction worse than to overpraise a man, for if his worth proves short of what report doth speak of… — Owen Feltham Copy Share Image
A man who flatters a woman hopes either to find her a fool or to make her one. — Samuel Richardson Copy Share Image
When the world frowns, we can face it; but let it smile, and we are undone. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton 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
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
Imitation is flattery. There was once a survey of who was the most imitated celebrity in Latin American countries, especially in Brazil… — Walter Mercado Copy Share Image
Happy in all that ragged, loose collapse of water, the fountain, its effortless descent and flatteries of spray... — Richard Wilbur Copy Share Image
We strive as hard to hide our hearts from ourselves as from others, and always with more success; for in deciding upon… — Charles Caleb Colton 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
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
Never permit yourself to indulge in cheap flattery, which often times means to merely satisfy the individuals vanity and sometimes to ingratiate… — Harold B. Lee Copy Share Image
