Flatters Quotes

52 quotes by 48 authors

A man of sense only trifles with them, plays with them, humors and flatters them, as he does with a sprightly and forward child; but… — Lord Chesterfield
A fool flatters himself, a wise man flatters the fool. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
What really flatters a man is that you think him worth flattering. — George Bernard Shaw
Flattery pleases very generally. In the first place, the flatterer may think what he says to be true; but, in the second place, whether he… — Samuel Johnson
Grant me prudently to avoid him that flatters me, and to endure patiently him that contradicts me. — Thomas a Kempis
Vulgarity in a king flatters the majority of the nation. — George Bernard Shaw
It is said that it is far more difficult to hold and maintain leadership (liberty) than it is to attain it. Success is a ruthless… — Samuel J. Tilden
In four ways ... should one who flatters be understood as a foe in the guise of a friend: He approves of his friend's evil… — Gautama Buddha
When fortune flatters, she does it to betray. — Publilius Syrus
No matter the style, the farther one goes the more obstacles increase, and the more distant appears the object it is desired to attain. Again,… — Jean-Georges Noverre
The Bible NEVER flatters its heroes. It tells us the truth about each one of them in order that against the background of human breakdown… — Alan Redpath
We swallow with one gulp the lie that flatters us, and drink drop by drop the truth which is bitter to us. — Denis Diderot
No adulation; 'tis the death of virtue; Who flatters, is of all mankind the lowest Save he who courts the flattery. — Hannah More
The feelings which seek expression in words are mostly egotistical, since they seek to express what flatters our self-love and can show us, as we… — Lorenzo Scupoli
No man could bring himself to reveal his true character, and, above all, his true limitations as a citizen and a Christian, his true meannesses,… — H. L. Mencken
There is some shadow of delight and delicacy which smiles upon and flatters us even in the very lap of melancholy. — Michel de Montaigne
Sometimes I know the meaning of a word but am tired of it and feel the need for an unfamiliar, especially precise or poetic term,… — William Safire
We all know that a sympathetic and intelligent listener not only flatters our vanity, but also frequently enables us to crystallize our own ideas to… — Thomas F. Wilson
And why does England thus persecute the votaries of her science? Why does she depress them to the level of her hewers of wood and… — David Brewster
If any man flatters me, I'll flatter him again; tho' he were my best Friend. — Benjamin Franklin

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