Always try to grow in your garden some plant or plants out of the ordinary, something your neighbors never attempted. For you… — Richardson Wright Copy Share Image
In the best, the friendliest and simplest relations flattery or praise is necessary, just as grease is necessary to keep wheels turning. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
You think I love flattery (says Dr. Johnson), and so I do; but a little too much always disgusts me: that fellow… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Imitation is not just the sincerest form of flattery - it's the sincerest form of learning. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Every man kills the things that he loves. Some with a look, some with flattery, the coward with a kiss. — Eric Jerome Dickey Copy Share Image
Our domestic Napoleons, too many of them, give flattery, bonnets and bracelets to women, and everything else but - justice. — Fanny Fern Copy Share Image
“If a story is w/out flaws or doubts, it is flattery or even brainwashing. You should read it as if drinking a… — Vinko Vrbanic Copy Share Image
There is nothing in the world more difficult than candor, and nothing easier than flattery. If there is a hundredth of a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We rightly scorn those who have no made use of their defects, who have not exploited their deficiencies, and have not been… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Flattery in courtship is the highest insolence, for whilst it pretends to bestow on you more than you deserve, it is watching… — Sarah Fielding Copy Share Image
If men of eminence are exposed to censure on one hand, they are as much liable to flattery on the other. If… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Everyone likes flattery, and when you come to Royalty, you should lay it on with a thick trowel — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
Cooking is a form of flattery....a mischievous, deceitful, mean and ignoble activity, which cheats us by shapes and colors, by smoothing and… — Plato Copy Share Image
“Then, in the spirit of benevolence, "Your face is well balanced." She slapped him encouragingly on the back, "You have very long… — S.U. Pacat Copy Share Image
Good things come to those who wait, So Im ready to sleep outside you gate, — Paperboi Copy Share Image
Said I was beautiful, did he? He's being paid for treatment, not flattery. — Lillie Langtry Copy Share Image
Are you tired? You should be! You've been running through my mind all day. — Gary Barlow Copy Share Image
“What Melanie did was no more than all Southern girls were taught to do: to make those about them feel at ease… — Margaret Mitchell Copy Share Image
Not kings alone--the people, too, have their flatterers. — Victor de Riqueti, marquis de Mirabeau Copy Share Image
Flattery's fire is hidden. Its sweet taste is apparent, but the smoke is bound to come out at last. — Rumi Copy Share Image
We must be careful how we flatter fools too little, or wise men too much, for the flatterer must act the very… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
It is scarcely credible to what degree discernment may be dazzled by the mist of pride, and wisdom infatuated by the intoxication… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
