Flatter Quotes

181 quotes by 156 authors

Don't be afraid of enemies who attack you. Be afraid of the friends who flatter you. — Dale Carnegie
Her Majesty's government is engaging not merely in Orwellian Newspeak but in self-defeating Orwellian Newspeak. The broader message it sends is that ours is a… — Mark Steyn
People must flatter their own eyes with their pathetic lives. The things I was saying followed logically the things that I had said before, yet… — Lyn Hejinian
We flatter those we scarcely know, We please the fleeting guest; And deal full many a thoughtless blow, To those who love us best. Laugh,… — Ella Wheeler Wilcox
I need not hate any man; he cannot hurt me. I need not flatter any man; he has nothing to give me. — Virginia Woolf
The republican principle demands that the deliberate sense of the community should govern the conduct of those to whom they intrust the management of their… — Alexander Hamilton
Poetical feelings are a peril to scholarship. There are always poetical people ready to protest that a corrupt line is exquisite. Exquisite to whom? The… — Tom Stoppard
For friends... do but look upon good Books: they are true friends, that will neither flatter nor dissemble. — Francis Bacon
truly to enjoy bodily warmth, some small part of you must be cold, for there is no quality in this world that is not what… — Herman Melville
How absurd these words are, such as beast and beast of prey. One should not speak of animals in that way. They may be terrible… — Hermann Hesse
Some men break your heart in two, Some men fawn and flatter, Some men never look at you; And that cleans up the matter. — Dorothy Parker
MAN: Kick him-he'll forgive you. Flatter him-he may or may not see through you. But ignore him and he'll hate you — Idries Shah
This progressive effacement of human relationships is not without certain problems for the novel. How, in point of fact, would one handle the narration of… — Michel Houellebecq
Eyes Tell Stories But do they know how to craft fiction? Do they know how to spin lies? His eyes swear forever, flatter with vows… — Ellen Hopkins
When she is older she will see in these resemblances a regrettable uniformity among individuals (they all stop at the same spots to kiss, have… — Milan Kundera
Your father is the first person to tell me that I am lovely who seemed to mean it. The only people who've told me that… — E.D. Baker
Maybe that's the way to tell the dangerous men from the good ones. A dreamer of the day is dangerous when he believes that others… — Mary Doria Russell
I had to give it him, to flatter and insult a woman in one propostition took talent. — Ilona Andrews
There's one sad truth in life I've found While journeying east and west - The only folks we really wound Are those we love the… — Ella Wheeler Wilcox
men are undoubtedly more in danger from prosperity than from adversity. for when matters go smoothly, they flatter themselves, and are intoxicated by their success — John Calvin

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