“Flattery is as important a machine as the lever, isn't it, Saxonberg? Give it a proper place to rest, and it can… — E.L. Konigsburg Copy Share Image
Love of another is merely empty flattery and self-deception for one who cannot accept himself without pretense. — L.E. Modesitt Jr Copy Share Image
We can often do more for other men by trying to correct our own faults than by trying to correct theirs. — Francois Fenelon Copy Share Image
When one looks truly at the good side of everyone, others come to love him very naturally, and he does not need… — Abraham Isaac Kook Copy Share Image
“Dostoevski's The Double is his best work though an obvious and shameless imitation of Gogol's "Nose.” — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
Gossip is saying behind their back what you would not say to their face. Flattery is saying to their face what you… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The happy phrasing of a compliment is one of the rarest of human gifts, and the happy delivery of it another. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
We swallow with one gulp the lie that flatters us, and drink drop by drop the truth which is bitter to us. — Denis Diderot Copy Share Image
I think I misunderstood the following in the footsteps bit, in a few of my early drinking years. I'd take any form… — Jason Bonham 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
“Death threats from the ignorant, the criminal, the dishonest, and the ideologue, not the plagiarisms of the envious, is the sincerest form… — Thomas W. Knowles Copy Share Image
The Marquis believed himself to be hardened against flattery. He thought that he had experienced every variety, but he discovered that he… — Georgette Heyer Copy Share Image
“As for those who spite you, and seemingly just because, it's only evident that they're learning from you. Maybe you taste bad… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
“So he wanted a night of sex with the voluptuous Lady Grafton, it looked as though the old mainstay of suave flattery… — Susan Johnson 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
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
Many a maid have I won by a quarrel, when flattery was in no wise helpful; but take heed that thou art… — Gelett Burgess Copy Share Image
Am I the only person in the world who is shocked and amazed at the ongoing flattery of uebergeek Mark Zuckerberg? — Tom Hodgkinson Copy Share Image
The flatterer easily insinuates himself into the closet, while honest merit stands shivering in the hall or antechamber. — Jane Porter 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
No matter what other nations may say about the United States, immigration is still the sincerest form of flattery. — Clayton Cramer Copy Share Image
Among all the diseases of the mind there is not one more epidemical or more pernicious than the love of flattery. — Richard Steele Copy Share Image
Beware of flattery! 'tis a flowery weed, Which oft offends the very idol-vice, Whose shrine it would perfume. — Elijah Fenton Copy Share Image
Flattery, if judiciously administered, is always acceptable, however much we may despise the flatterer. — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
Every woman is infallibly to be gained by every sort of flattery, and every man by one sort or other. — Bill Vaughan 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
Fearing no insult, asking for no crown, receive with indifference both flattery and slander, and do not argue with a fool. — Alexander Pushkin Copy Share Image
The heart of a woman is never so full of affection that there does not remain a little corner for flattery and… — Pierre de Marivaux Copy Share Image
The love of one's own sex is precious, for it is neither provoked by vanity nor retained by flattery; it is genuine… — Maria Mitchell Copy Share Image
Flattery looks like friendship, just like a wolf looks like a dog. Food for thought is no substitute for the real thing. — Walt Kelly 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
Working with Dilip Kumar sahib I observed that he was not someone who would be happy with flattery. He only liked good… — Manoj Kumar 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
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
Inexperienced girls flatter themselves with the notion that it is in their power to make a man happy. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver; and adulation is not of more service to the people than to kings. — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
No flattery, boy! an honest man cannot live by it; it is a little, sneaking art, which knaves use to cajole and… — Thomas Otway 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
Some indeed there are who profess to despise all flattery, but even these are nevertheless to be flattered, by being told that… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Oh my lady what such mercy you upon me but before I befall to your lovey charms I much say you do… — Michael Country Copy Share Image
