Anorexia Quote by Anonymous

Our credulity is greatest concerning the things we know least about.

— Eric Hoffer

Our credulity is a part of the imperfection of our natures. It is inherent in us to desire to generalize, when we ought, on…

— Napoleon Bonaparte

People flatter us because they can depend upon our credulity.

— Tacitus

We love flattery, even though we are not deceived by it, because it shows that we are of importance enough to be courted.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Sometimes we think we dislike flattery, but it is only the way it is done that we dislike.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Flattery is the worst and falsest way of showing our esteem.

— Jonathan Swift

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

Adroit observers will find that some who affect to dislike flattery, may yet be flattered indirectly, by a well seasoned abuse and ridicule of…

— Charles Caleb Colton

Flattery must be pretty thick before anybody objects to it....

— William Feather

If we did not flatter ourselves, the flattery of others could never harm us.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Flattery makes fools of the best of us.

— Dorothy Salisbury Davis

The encomium of one incapable of flattery is indeed flattering.

— Percy Bysshe Shelley