Fire Quote by Samuel Johnson

To be flattered is grateful, even when we know that our praises are not believed by those who pronounce them; for they prove, at…

— Samuel Johnson

Flattery pleases very generally. In the first place, the flatterer may think what he says to be true; but, in the second place, whether…

— Samuel Johnson

Pope had been flattered till he thought himself one of the moving powers of the system of life. When he talked of laying down…

— Samuel Johnson

Man is a perpetually wanting animal.

— Abraham Maslow

There is a perfect ant, a perfect bee, but man is perpetually unfinished...Moreover, the incurable unfinishedness keeps man perpetually immature, perpetually capable of learning…

— Eric Hoffer

“A man who is perpetually thinking of whether this race or that race is strong, of whether this cause or that cause is promising,…

— G.K. Chesterton

Learn that every flatterer Lives at the flattered listeners cost.

— Jean de La Fontaine

Never permit yourself to indulge in cheap flattery, which often times means to merely satisfy the individuals vanity and sometimes to ingratiate the flatter…

— Harold B. Lee

“Flattery is so necessary to all of us that we flatter one another to be flattered in return”

— Marjorie Bowen

They do not abuse the king that flatter him. For flattery is the bellows blows up sin; The thing the which is flattered, but…

— William Shakespeare

Money is the sincerest of all flattery. Women love to be flattered. So do men.

— Robert A. Heinlein

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