The gallantry of the mind consists in agreeable flattery. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
When we seek appreciation from others, we get not appreciation, but flattery. — Sri Chinmoy Copy Share Image
Flattery is saying something nice in order to help yourself. Encouragement is saying something true in order help someone else. — Kevin DeYoung Copy Share Image
I dont like it when some guys try to flatter me because I never trust anyone who compliments me more than the… — Xandra Escorsa Copy Share Image
“She said, “You disgust me. How do you live with yourself?” So I said, “Like I live with my clone: with many… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
I have already settled it for myself so flattery and criticism go down the same drain and I am quite free. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There is no other way to guard yourself against flattery than by making men understand that telling you the truth will not… — Anonymous 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
Though flattery blossoms like friendship, yet there is a vast difference in the fruit. — Socrates Copy Share Image
There is not one of us that would not be worse than kings, if so continually corrupted as they are with a… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Say not unto thyself, Behold, truth breedeth hatred, and I will avoid it; dissimulation raiseth friends, and I will follow it. Are… — Akhenaton 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
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
Our credulity is greatest concerning the things we know least about. And since we know least about ourselves, we are ready to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Slander, in the strict meaning of the term, comes under the head of lying; but it is a kind of lying which,… — Washington Gladden Copy Share Image
Now, in my opinion, a woman has no business with Power-Power admits no equal, and dismisses friendship for flattery. Besides, it keeps… — George Edward Moore Copy Share Image
The difference between appreciation and flattery? That is simple. One is sincere and the other insincere. One comes from the heart out;… — Dale Carnegie Copy Share Image
They do not abuse the king that flatter him. For flattery is the bellows blows up sin; The thing the which is… — William Shakespeare 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
“Gracious ignored him. "A farmer's daughter, she was, though back then every girl was a farmer's daughter. Or a farmer. She had… — Derek Landy Copy Share Image
“What infinite heart's-ease Must kings neglect, that private men enjoy! And what have kings, that privates have not too, Save ceremony, save… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“But, to return to my design, what power was it that drew those stony, oaken, and wild people into cities but flattery?… — Erasmus Copy Share Image
... believing in a God whom we cannot but regard as evil, and then, in mere terrified flattery calling Him 'good' and… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
It is an unquestionable truth, that the body of the people in every country desire sincerely its prosperity. But it is equally… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
I think it's an American curse that most of us think we are special. ... everyone believes themselves to be superior to… — Fay Faron 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
