Conventional Quote by Walter Savage Landor

The habitude of pleasing by flattery makes a language soft; the fear of offending by truth makes it circuitous and conventional

— Walter Savage Landor

Flattery makes fools of the best of us.

— Dorothy Salisbury Davis

A little flattery makes people feel good about themselves. When you notice someone looking great, give them a compliment.

— Ken Blanchard

Our society strives to avoid any possibility of offending anyone - except God.

— Billy Graham

Sometimes God offends our minds in order to reveal our hearts.

— John Wimber

The miscegenation laws of the South only operate against the legitimate union of the races; they leave the white man free to seduce all…

— Anonymous

I'm really proud of Gunsmoke. We put on a good show every week - one that families could all watch together without offending anyone.

— Ken Curtis

Justice is always Violence to the Party offending, for every Man is Innocent in his own Eyes.

— Daniel Defoe

There is speaking well, speaking easily, speaking justly and speaking seasonably: It is offending against the last, to speak of entertainments before the indigent;…

— Jean de la Bruyere

If you are not offending people who ought to be offended, you're doing something wrong.

— Noam Chomsky

Be Yourself -The man who is neither bent upon pleasing his fellows nor afraid of offending them will enjoy great peace.

— Thomas a Kempis

There is a strange taboo in our society against ending something merely because it is not pleasant-- life, love, a conversation, you name it,…

— Helen DeWitt