Abuse Quote by Jim Tressel

I do not listen to criticism or flattery, one weakens you and the other angers you.

— Diego Simeone

Flattery is the worst and falsest way of showing our esteem.

— Jonathan Swift

Adroit observers will find that some who affect to dislike flattery, may yet be flattered indirectly, by a well seasoned abuse and ridicule of…

— Charles Caleb Colton

I hate careless flattery, the kind that exhausts you in your efforts to believe it.

— Wilson Mizner

Sometimes we think we dislike flattery, but it is only the way it is done that we dislike.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

There is no other way of guarding oneself against flattery than by letting men understand that they will not offend you by speaking the…

— Niccolo Machiavelli

Sometimes, you can learn more from criticism than you can from flattery.

— Doug McMillon

Flattery has to overcome my mistrust, and it does.

— Mason Cooley

Some indeed there are who profess to despise all flattery, but even these are nevertheless to be flattered, by being told that they do…

— Charles Caleb Colton

In the end, you have to get a little used to these ups and downs, these ups and downs of feelings, criticism and flattery.

— Dani Carvajal

Nothing is harder to resist than a bit of flattery.

— Arnold Lobel

Your flattery is as full of contempt as your insults were.

— Mason Cooley