Flatter Quotes

181 quotes by 156 authors

Those who enter to buy, support me. Those who come to flatter, please me. Those who complain, teach me how I may please others so… — Marshall Field
But what is the good of friendship if one cannot say exactly what one means? Anybody can say charming things and try to please and… — Oscar Wilde
Tell me not of joy: there's none Now my little sparrow's gone; He, just as you, Would toy and woo, He would chirp and flatter… — William Cartwright
To drown a river beneath its own impounded water, by damming, is to kill what it was and to settle for something else. When the… — David Quammen
Don't flatter the rich, or appear to willing before the great. — Thomas a Kempis
Solitude is the surest nurse of all prurient passions, and a girl in the hurry of preparation, or tumult of gaiety, has neither inclination nor… — Samuel Johnson
Nay, do not think I flatter. For what advancement may I hope from thee, That no revenue hast but thy good spirits To feed and… — William Shakespeare
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 yourself.… — William Shakespeare
They do not abuse the king that flatter him. For flattery is the bellows blows up sin; The thing the which is flattered, but a… — William Shakespeare
Take no repulse, whatever she doth say; For 'get you gone,' she doth not mean 'away.' Flatter and praise, commend, extol their graces; Though ne'er… — William Shakespeare
Where Young must torture his invention To flatter knaves, or lose his pension. — Jonathan Swift
It is easy to flatter; it is harder to praise. — Jean Paul
I told him about the way they get to know you. Not the way people do, the way they flatter you by wanting to know… — Amy Hempel
Let us take a patriot, where we can meet him; and, that we may not flatter ourselves by false appearances, distinguish those marks which are… — Samuel Johnson
Critics kind never mind! Critics flatter no matter! Critics blame all the same! Do your best damn the rest! — Arthur Conan Doyle
There are very few designers in Hollywood today who know how to really flatter a woman's body, and Mark Zunino is at the top of… — Joan Collins
As far as I can make out, women's friendships with each other are based on a gush of lies and pretty speeches that mean nothing.… — Marilyn Monroe
Taxes should be lower, flatter, and simpler, in that order. — David Boaz
Do not flatter yourselves: if you go to places of worship merely to look about you or to hear music, you are not worshipping God. — Charles Spurgeon
It is a remarkable fact that all the heresies which have arisen in the Christian Church have had a decided tendency to dishonor God and… — Charles Spurgeon

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