Flatter Quotes

181 quotes by 156 authors

We deceive and flatter no one by such delicate artificies as we do our own selves. — Arthur Schopenhauer
Other passions have objects to flatter them, and seem to content and satisfy them for a while; there is power in ambition, pleasure in luxury,… — Michel de Montaigne
If any man flatters me, I'll flatter him again; tho' he were my best Friend. — Benjamin Franklin
This autobiography of mine is a mirror, and I am looking at myself in it all the time. Incidentally I notice the people that pass… — Mark Twain
Let those flatter who fear; it is not an American art . — Thomas Jefferson
Hark, how chimes the passing bell! There's no music to a knell; All the other sounds we hear, Flatter, and but cheat our ear. This… — James Shirley
You must ingratiate yourself with those who can help you. Flatter them to their faces. Praise them to others who will carry your words back… — Chin-Ning Chu
Let me tell you how the French seduce you. They are the most bloody seductive people on Earth. They are charming, they are well-mannered and… — Anita Roddick
Reprimand and rebuke should be accepted as healing remedies for vice and as conducive to good health. From this it is clear that those who… — Saint Basil
Never permit yourself to indulge in cheap flattery, which often times means to merely satisfy the individuals vanity and sometimes to ingratiate the flatter into… — Harold B. Lee
[I]t would be a piece of ingenuousness to accuse the man of to-day of his lack of moral code. The accusation would leave him cold,… — Jose Ortega y Gasset
However we may flatter ourselves to the contrary, our friends think no higher of us than the world do. They see us through the jaundiced… — William Hazlitt
How many of our virtues originate in the fear of Death & that while we flatter ourselves that we are melting in Christian Sensibility over… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
If you followed this economic crisis and you do not think that the world is getting flatter, you are not paying attention. We saw the… — Thomas Friedman
People may flatter themselves just as much by thinking that their faults are always present to other people's minds, as if they believe that the… — Elizabeth Gaskell
The society of dead authors has this advantage over that of the living: they never flatter us to our faces, nor slander us behind our… — Charles Caleb Colton
The conquest of the earth, which mostly means the taking it away from those who have a different complexion or slightly flatter noses than ourselves,… — Joseph Conrad
Don't flatter yourselves that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. On the contrary, the nearer you come into relation with a… — Oliver Wendell Holmes
The language of judicial decision is mainly the language of logic. And the logical method and form flatter that longing for certainty and for repose… — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Worse there cannot be; a better, I believe, there may be, by giving energy to the capital and skill of the country to produce exports,… — Joseph Hume

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