"Where Young must torture his invention To flatter……" — Jonathan Swift

More Flatter Quotes

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• To flatter and follow others, without being flattered and followed in turn, is but a state of half enjoyment. — Jane Austen
• He who knows how to flatter also knows how to slander. — Napoleon Bonaparte
• I don't call you handsome, sir, though I love you most dearly: far too dearly to flatter you. Don't flatter… — Charlotte Bronte
• That praises are without reason lavished on the dead, and that the honours due only to are paid to antiquity,… — Ben Jonson
• Inexperienced girls flatter themselves with the notion that it is in their power to make a man happy. — Friedrich Nietzsche
• We must be careful how we flatter fools too little, or wise men too much, for the flatterer must act… — Charles Caleb Colton
• A dog will flatter you but you have to flatter the cat. — George Mikes
• The award of a pure gold medal for poetry would flatter the recipient unduly: no poem ever attains such carat… — Robert Graves
• We are so concerned to flatter the majority that we lose sight of how very often it is necessary, in… — William F. Buckley, Jr.
• When our vices desert us, we flatter ourselves that we are deserting our vices. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
• Revile those who flatter you. — Rumi
• They are deceived who flatter themselves that the ignorant and debased slave has no conception of the magnitude of his… — Solomon Northup

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