Flatter Quotes

181 quotes by 158 authors

To flatter and follow others, without being flattered and followed in turn, is but a state of half enjoyment. — Jane Austen
He who knows how to flatter also knows how to slander. — Napoleon Bonaparte
I don't call you handsome, sir, though I love you most dearly: far too dearly to flatter you. Don't flatter me. — Charlotte Bronte
That praises are without reason lavished on the dead, and that the honours due only to are paid to antiquity, is a complaint likely to… — Ben Jonson
Inexperienced girls flatter themselves with the notion that it is in their power to make a man happy. — Friedrich Nietzsche
We must be careful how we flatter fools too little, or wise men too much, for the flatterer must act the very reverse of the… — Charles Caleb Colton
A dog will flatter you but you have to flatter the cat. — George Mikes
The award of a pure gold medal for poetry would flatter the recipient unduly: no poem ever attains such carat purity. — Robert Graves
We are so concerned to flatter the majority that we lose sight of how very often it is necessary, in order to preserve freedom for… — William F. Buckley, Jr.
When our vices desert us, we flatter ourselves that we are deserting our vices. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Revile those who flatter you. — Rumi
They are deceived who flatter themselves that the ignorant and debased slave has no conception of the magnitude of his wrongs. They are deceived who… — Solomon Northup
The flatter the corporate hierarchy, the more likely it is that employees will communicate bad news and act upon it. — Bill Gates
Careless of censure, nor too fond of fame, Still pleased to praise, yet not afraid to blame, Averse alike to flatter or offend, Not free… — Alexander Pope
Buddha says: "Do not flatter your benefactor!". Let one repeat this saying in a Christian church : it immediately purifies the air of everything Christian. — Friedrich Nietzsche
The praise we seek for our own virtues sometimes tempts us to flatter the imperfections of other men. — Norm MacDonald
He who cannot love must learn to flatter. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Left to my own devices, would I trade this for firm thighs, fewer wrinkles, a better memory? On some days. That's why it's such a… — Anne Lamott
There exists a black kingdom which the eyes of man avoid because its landscape fails signally to flatter them. This darkness, which he imagines he… — Louis Aragon
Mr. Lely, I desire you would use all your skill to paint my picture truly like me, and not flatter me at all; but remark… — Oliver Cromwell

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