“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
Flattery is often a traffic of mutual meanness, where although both parties intend deception, neither are deceived. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
I never paid you a compliment, Rachel, in my life. Successful love may sometimes use the language of flattery, I admit. But… — Wilkie Collins Copy Share Image
Solitude is the surest nurse of all prurient passions, and a girl in the hurry of preparation, or tumult of gaiety, has… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
He who says he hates every kind of flattery, and says it in earnest, certainly does not yet know every kind of… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
Between flattery and admiration there often flows a river of contempt. — Minna Antrim Copy Share Image
None are more taken in by flattery than the proud, who wish to be the first and are not. — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
Hope means hoping when things are hopeless, or it is no virtue at all... As long as matters are really hopeful, hope… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
One-year-olds learn concealment. Five-year-olds lie outright: they manipulate via flattery. Nine-year-olds - masters of the cover-up. By the time you enter college,… — Pamela Meyer Copy Share Image
I am not one of those who left the land to the mercy of its enemies. Their flattery leaves me cold, my… — Anna Akhmatova Copy Share Image
Inexperienced girls flatter themselves with the notion that it is in their power to make a man happy. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites…in proportion as… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Of praise a mere glutton, he swallow'd what came, And the puff a dunce, he mistook it for fame; Till his relish… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
It is worth thought what kind of mind or condition or disposition is open to flattery; for poison would not be spread… — James Vila Blake Copy Share Image
“To flatter a young man, tell him that you thought that he was older than he is. To flatter an old woman,… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Let it not, therefore, be said that the Sovereign is not subject to the laws of his State; since the contrary is… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
Though flattery blossoms like friendship, yet there is a vast difference in the fruit. — Socrates Copy Share Image
