Adulation Quote by Oliver Goldsmith

To be ambitious of true honor, of the true glory and perfection of our natures, is the very principle and incentive of virtue.

— Walter Scott

To be ambitious of true honor and of the real glory and perfection of our nature is the very principle and incentive of virtue;…

— Philip Sidney

Heart-stopping envy is the sincerest form of flattery.

— Anna Godbersen

Flattery is praise insincerely given for an interested purpose.

— Henry Ward Beecher

The thrust of ambition is, and always has been, great, but among the bright-eyed it had once a more adventurous and individualistic air, a…

— Louis Kronenberger

The most sincere form of flattery is money.

— Jim Cantrell

It is necessary to the success of flattery, that it be accommodated to particular circumstances or characters, and enter the heart on that side…

— Samuel Johnson

The journey towards excellence often tires the person initially and then tries to tempt him continually with all small lucrative offers before it eventually…

— Anuj Somany

In ambition, as in love, the successful can afford to be indulgent toward their rivals. The prize our own, it is graceful to recognize…

— Christian Nestell Bovee

Ambition is a lust that's never quenched, Grows more inflated, and madder by enjoyment. - TOtway

— Anonymous

Ambition is a lust that is never quenched, but grows more inflamed and madder by enjoyment.

— Thomas Otway

Even in the centuries which appear to us to be the most monstrous and foolish, the immortal appetite for beauty has always found satisfaction.

— Charles Baudelaire