We are not fond of praising, and never praise any one except from interested motives. Praise is a clever, concealed, and delicate… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Flattery does not encourage the perfect flow of love in the vein of your relationship. Be genuine and speak out what you… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When will the public cease to insult the teacher's calling with empty flattery? When will men who would never for a moment… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I have always found it interesting... that there are people who regard copyright infringement as a form of flattery. — Tom Lehrer Copy Share Image
Abject flattery and indiscriminate assentation degrade, as much as indiscriminate contradiction and noisy debate disgust. But a modest assertion of one's own… — Doug Stanhope Copy Share Image
In order that all men may be taught to speak truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it;… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
If you tell a woman she is beautiful, whisper it softly, for if the devil hears, he will echo it many times. — Francis Alexander Durivage Copy Share Image
“Black females, for the most part, know by the time they are ten years old that the world is not much concerned… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
We must suit the flattery to the mind and taste of the recipient. We do not put essences into hogsheads, nor porter… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Nothing in this world is harder than speaking the truth, nothing easier than flattery. — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
The man that lays his hand upon a woman, Save in the way of kindness, is a wretch Whom't were gross flattery… — John M. Tobin, Jr Copy Share Image
The simulated approval and affection with which parents and teachers are often urged to solve behavior problems are counterfeit. So are flattery,… — B. F. Skinner Copy Share Image
I see this evident, that we willingly accord to piety only the services that flatter our passions. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
People who wish to numb our caution in dealing with them by means of flattery are employing a dangerous expedient, like a… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
No visor does become black villainy so well as soft and tender flattery. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
The world is a king, and like a king, desires flattery in return for favor; but true art is selfish and perverse… — Ludwig van Beethoven Copy Share Image
What wouldst thou do, old man? Think'st thou that duty shall have dread to speak When power to flattery bows? — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
No matter what other nations may say about the United States, immigration is still the sincerest form of flattery. — Clayton Cramer Copy Share Image
