We must define flattery and praise; they are distinct. Trajan was encouraged to virtue by the panegyric Pliny; Tiberius became obstinate in… — Louis XVI of France Copy Share Image
O Beauty, find thyself in love, not in the flattery of thy mirror. — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
Flattery of the verbal kind is gross. In short, applause is of too coarse a nature to be swallowed in the gross,… — William Shenstone Copy Share Image
Grant me prudently to avoid him that flatters me, and to endure patiently him that contradicts me. — Thomas a Kempis Copy Share Image
Can honor's voice provoke the silent dust, or flattery soothe the dull, cold ear of death? — Thomas Gray Copy Share Image
Gone are the days when imitation equalled flattery. What happens today, is essentially an entire generation looking outward - not for inspiration,… — Shweta Bachchan Nanda Copy Share Image
Sometimes, idealistic people are put off the whole business of networking as something tainted by flattery and the pursuit of selfish advantage.… — Sonia Sotomayor Copy Share Image
But, perhaps, the flatterer is not often detected; for an honest mind is not apt to suspect, and no one exerts the… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
In short, no association or alliance can be happy or stable without me. People can't long tolerate a ruler, nor can a… — Desiderius Erasmus Copy Share Image
Its cute when you tell me I'm beautiful even though I'm wearing sweat pants and a sweatshirt. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The most dangerous of all flattery is the inferiority of those about us. — Sophie Swetchine 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
Few men survey themselves with so much severity as not to admit prejudices in their own favour, which an artful flatterer may… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
True love is mixed up with birdlike squabbles, in which the disputants wound each other to the quick; but a quarrel without… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
Young children are unlikely to have their self-esteem strengthened from excessive praise or flattery. On the contrary, it may raise some doubts… — Lilian Katz 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
Feel you the barren flattery of a rhyme? Can poets soothe you, when you pine for bread, By winding myrtle round your… — George Crabbe Copy Share Image
Probably one of the reasons why gushing is so unattractive is that it leaves nothing for the listener to do. — Margery Wilson 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
