It is the folly of weak-minded people, to imagine they are what flattery or conceit represents them; and that it is useless… — Norm MacDonald 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
Because all men are apt to flatter themselves, to entertain the addition of other men's praises is most perilous. — Walter Raleigh Copy Share Image
He does me double wrong That wounds me with the flatteries of his tongue. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Flattery is a challenge. The proper turning away from it, undercutting, diminishing it without offense or vehemence, is a social grace sweeter… — Elizabeth Hardwick Copy Share Image
There is no flattery so adroit or effectual as that of implicit assent. — William Hazlitt 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
Of all wild beasts preserve me from a tyrant; and of all tame a flatterer. — Ben Jonson Copy Share Image
Mine eyes Were not in fault, for she was beautiful; Mine ears, that heard her flattery; nor my heart, That thought her… — William Shakespeare 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
If you had told Sycorax that her son Caliban was as handsome as Apollo, she would have been pleased, witch as she… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
The reason that adulation is not displeasing is that, though untrue, it shows one to be of consequence enough, in one way… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
There can hardly, I believe, be imagined a more desirable pleasure than that of praise unmixed with any possibility of flattery. — Richard Steele Copy Share Image
Where Young must torture his invention To flatter knaves, or lose his pension. — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
“Speransky, either because he appreciated Prince Andrey's abilities or because he thought it as well to secure his adherence, showed off his… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
I hate when babes be like smoking isn't cute... Bitch, aint nobody trynna be cute, we are trynna get high. — Paperboi Copy Share Image
Flattery is a foolish suicide; she destroys herself with her own hands. — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
Gallantry of mind consists in saying flattering things in an agreeable manner. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
There are some people who imagine that they can disarm their enemy by complacent flattery. They are wrong. The world has always… — Vilfredo Pareto Copy Share Image
... believing in a God whom we cannot but regard as evil, and then, in mere terrified flattery calling Him 'good' and… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
