Flatters Us Quotes
- We swallow with one gulp the lie that flatters us, and drink drop by drop the truth which is bitter to us. — Denis Diderot
- There is some shadow of delight and delicacy which smiles upon and flatters us even in the very lap of melancholy. — Michel de Montaigne
- We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter. — Denis Diderot
- 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
- 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