Flattery Quote by Adlai E Stevenson Download Open image “Flattery is all right if you don't inhale” — Adlai E Stevenson ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.9 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Flattery
The aim of flattery is to soothe and encourage us by assuring us of the truth of an opinion we have already formed about… — Edith Sitwell Copy Share Image
flattery would be worse than vain; there is no consolation in flattery. — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
Flattery, if judiciously administered, is always acceptable. — Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington Copy Share Image
In youth, everything seems possible; but we reach a point in the middle years when we realize that we are never going to reach… — Adlai E Stevenson Copy Share Image
Respect for intellectual excellence, the restoration of vigor and discipline to our ideas of study, curricula which aim at strengthening intellectual fiber and stretching… — Adlai E Stevenson Copy Share Image
When you leave here, don't forget why you came. ( to college graduates) — Adlai E Stevenson Copy Share Image
Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it. — Adlai E Stevenson Copy Share Image
You will find that the truth is often unpopular and the contest between agreeable fancy and disagreeable fact is unequal. For, in the vernacular,… — Adlai E Stevenson Copy Share Image
The elephant has a thick skin, a head full of ivory, and as everyone who has seen a circus parade knows, proceeds best by… — Adlai E Stevenson Copy Share Image
Those who corrupt the public mind are just as evil as those who steal from the public — Adlai E Stevenson Copy Share Image
We mean by 'politics' the people's business - the most important business there is. — Adlai E Stevenson Copy Share Image
After four years at the United Nations I sometimes yearn for the peace and tranquillity of a political convention. — Adlai E Stevenson Copy Share Image
A diplomat's life is made up of three ingredients: protocol, Geritol and alcohol. — Adlai E Stevenson Copy Share Image
“Flattery looks like friendship, just like a wolf looks like a dog.” — Oscar Auliq-Ice Copy Share Image
“What a situation!' cried Miss Squeers; '...What is the reason that men fall in love with me, whether I like it or not, and… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
By God, I cannot flatter, I do defy The tongues of soothers! but a braver place In my heart's love hath no man than… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
I'm not drunk, I'm just intoxicated by you. I was so enchanted by your beauty that I ran into that wall over there. So… — Paperboi Copy Share Image
The most skillful flattery is to let a person talk on, and be a listener. — Joseph Addison 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
It is an unquestionable truth, that the body of the people in every country desire sincerely its prosperity. But it is equally unquestionable that… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
“You are the belle of the ball tonight.” He said as he moved in closer. “How can you be so sinfully beautiful Mrs. Norman?” — Barry Gray Copy Share Image
He who says he hates all kinds of flattery, and says so in earnest, has undoubtedly not as yet become acquainted with all kinds… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
