Flatters Quotes

52 quotes by 48 authors

And, of all lies (be that one poet's boast) / The lie that flatters I abhor the most. — William Cowper
Every one that flatters thee Is no friend in misery. Words are easy, like the wind, Faithful friends are hard to find. — Richard Barnfield
The horse is your mirror. He never flatters you. He reflects your temperament. He also reflects your ups and downs. Donâ€™t ever be angry with… — Rudolf G. Binding
'Moderate Republican' is simply how the blabocracy flatters Republicans who vote with the Democrats. If it weren't so conspicuous, the 'New York Times' would start… — Ann Coulter
We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter. — Denis Diderot
We often choose a friend as we do a mistress - for no particular excellence in themselves, but merely from some circumstance that flatters our… — William Hazlitt
Nothing flatters a man as much as the happiness of his wife; he is always proud of himself as the source of it. — Samuel Johnson
Every new president flatters himself that he, kinder and gentler, is beginning the world anew. Yet, when Barack Obama in his inaugural address reached out… — Charles Krauthammer
The public wants work which flatters its illusions. — Gustave Flaubert
It is very easy to shun someone who is deliberately cruel, and everyone loathes a man who is brutal and vicious. Such people have a… — Sharon Shinn
Truth is contrary to our nature, not so error, and this for a very simple reason: truth demands that we should recognize ourselves as limited,… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
He had grieved for me, I'll give him that much. But then he is so good at grieving! He wears woe as others wear velvet;… — Anne Rice
He who flatters a man is his enemy. he who tells him of his faults is his maker. — Confucius
When a cat flatters ... he is not insincere: you may safely take it for real kindness. — Walter Savage Landor
The dull mind, once arriving at an inference that flatters the desire, is rarely able to retain the impression that the notion from which the… — George Eliot
All love is betrayal, in that it flatters life. The loveless man is best armed. — John Updike
Right now, scientists are in exactly the same position as Renaissance painters, commissioned to make the portrait the patron wants done, And if they are… — Michael Crichton
men are so conceited theyâ€™ll believe anything that flatters them — Margaret Mitchell
His heart is a desert island.... The whole scope, the whole energy of his mind surround and protect him; his depths isolate him and guard… — Paul Valery
A blessed thing it is to have a friend; one human soul whom we can trust utterly; who knows the best and worst of us,… — Charles Kingsley

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