Between flattery and admiration there often flows a river of contempt. — Minna Antrim Copy Share Image
Sometimes, you can learn more from criticism than you can from flattery. — Doug McMillon Copy Share Image
Money is the sincerest of all flattery. Women love to be flattered. So do men. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Flattery is never so agreeable as to our blind side; commend a fool for his wit, or a knave for his honesty,… — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
“emulation is a sincere form of flattery, but individuality is the only form of immortality.” — Corey Taylor 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
Imitation is the highest form of flattery, but clones kind of get it wrong because we are promoting individuality and being proud… — Brian Molko Copy Share Image
Its cute when you tell me I'm beautiful even though I'm wearing sweat pants and a sweatshirt. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I hate when babes be like smoking isn't cute... Bitch, aint nobody trynna be cute, we are trynna get high. — Paperboi Copy Share Image
The flattery of posterity is not worth much more than contemporary flattery, which is worth nothing. — Jorge Luis Borges 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
Gone are the days when imitation equalled flattery. What happens today, is essentially an entire generation looking outward - not for inspiration,… — Shweta Bachchan Nanda Copy Share Image
Praise is a more ingenious, concealed, and subtle kind of flattery, that satisfies both the giver and the receiver, though by verydifferent… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
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
A woman's flattery may inflate a man's head a little; but her criticism goes straight to his heart, and contracts it so… — Helen Rowland Copy Share Image
Whenever somebody folds, say, 'Good laydown.' It encourages them to fold on a later hand because it makes them feel like you… — Cheryl Hines Copy Share Image
The voice of flattery affects us after it has ceased, just as after a concert men find some agreeable air ringing in… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Women who are either indisputably beautiful, or indisputably ugly, are best flattered upon the score of their understandings; but those who are… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
I have always hated biography, and more especially, autobiography. If biography, the writer invariably finds it necessary to plaster the subject with… — Carolyn Wells Copy Share Image
“You will make the boy Thief king?" he said. "When you could have had me?" Attolia allowed a slight smile. "A fine… — Megan Whalen Turner Copy Share Image
“You are 'the best of cut-throats:'--do not start; The phrase is Shakespeare's, and not misapplied:-- War's a brain-spattering, windpipe-slitting art, Unless her… — George Gordon Byron Copy Share Image
Let's cease thinking of our accomplishments, our wants. Let's try to figure out the other man's good points. Then forget flattery. Give… — Dale Carnegie 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
“Speransky, either because he appreciated Prince Andrey's abilities or because he thought it as well to secure his adherence, showed off his… — Leo Tolstoy 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
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
“The most preposterous notion that Homo sapiens has ever dreamed up is that the Lord God of Creation, Shaper and Ruler of… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
