Famous Quotes - Tags - Flattery

  • Abject flattery and indiscriminate assentation degrade, as much as indiscriminate contradiction... More
  • Alas! ye lordes, many a false flatterer
    Is in your courts, and many a losenger,
    That... More
  • And now, dear little children, who may this story read,
    To idle, silly, flattering words, I... More
  • As a tiger may lose its footing on soft ground, so people may be tripped up by sweet words. More
  • As kings are begotten and born like other men, it is to be presumed that they are of the human... More
  • Baloney is flattery laid on so thick it cannot be true, and blarney is flattery so thin we love it. More
  • Between flattery and admiration there often flows a river of contempt. More
  • But it is hard to know them from friends, they are so obsequious and full of protestations; for a... More
  • Carmen: You’re cute. I like you.
    Philip Marlowe: What you see is nothing. I got a Balinese... More
  • Chris! You’re a caveman! I like you to like me, but there’s a limit. More
  • Delicious essence! how refreshing art thou to nature! how strongly are all its powers and all its... More
  • Detestable flatterers! the most deadly gift that divine wrath may give a king! More
  • Edith: Does anybody want me to flatter and be untruthful? Hotchkiss: Well, since you ask me, I... More
  • Enough candor! Now some flattery, if you please. More
  • Eulogy is nice, but one does not learn anything from it. More
  • Everyone likes flattery; and when you come to Royalty you should lay it on with a trowel. More
  • Everyone likes to be flattered, while no one likes honest speech. More
  • Flatter me, but delicately, please, for I am fastidious. More
  • Flattery and insults raise the same question: “What do you want?” More
  • Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver. More
  • Flattery has to overcome my mistrust, and it does. More
  • Flattery makes friends and truth makes enemies. More
  • Flattery’ll get you anywhere. More
  • Flower Belle! What a euphonious appellation! Easy on the ears and a banquet for the eyes! More
  • For the mutable, rank-scented meiny, let them
    Regard me as I do not flatter, and
    Therein... More
  • He cannot flatter, he,
    An honest mind and plain, he must speak truth!
    And they will take... More
  • He does me double wrong
    That wounds me with the flatteries of his tongue. More
  • He that loves to be flattered is worthy o’ the flatterer. More
  • He who says he hates every kind of flattery, and says it in earnest, certainly does not yet know... More
  • Hey, you dress up our town very nicely. You don’t look out the Chamber of Commerce is going to... More
  • He’s one of those know-it-all types that, if you flatter the wig off him, he chatter like a... More
  • His nature is too noble for the world;
    He would not flatter Neptune for his trident,
    Or... More
  • Human life is thus only a perpetual illusion; men deceive and flatter each other. No one speaks... More
  • I am not bid for love, they flatter me. More
  • I cannot flatter; I do defy
    The tongues of soothers, but a braver place
    In my heart’s... More
  • I have always observed, when there is as much sour as sweet in a compliment, that an Englishman... More
  • I have trod a measure, I have flattered a lady, I have
    been politic with my friend, smooth... More
  • I recommend to you, in my last, an innocent piece of art: that of flattering people behind their... More
  • I see this evident, that we willingly accord to piety only the services that flatter our passions. More
  • If I never praised or flattered, I never belyed [sic] or contradicted them. More
  • If we did not flatter ourselves, the flattery of others could never harm us. More
  • If you think of paying court to the men in power, your eternal ruin is assured. More
  • It is visible then that it was not any Heathen Religion or other Idolatrous Superstition, that... More
  • It was a maxim with Mr. Brass that the habit of paying compliments kept a man’s tongue oiled... More
  • John Robie: And jewelry—you never wear any.
    Frances Stevens: I don’t like cold things... More
  • Just praise is only a debt, but flattery is a present. More
  • Let those flatter, who fear: it is not an American art. To give praise where it is not due, might... More
  • My beauty, though but mean,
    Needs not the painted flourish of your praise.
    Beauty is... More
  • My credit now stands on such slippery ground
    That one of two bad ways you must conceit... More
  • Never alone
    Did the King sigh, but with a general groan. More
  • O that men’s ears should be
    To counsel deaf, but not to flattery! More
  • One can also be undignified and flattering toward a virtue. More
  • People who wish to numb our caution in dealing with them by means of flattery are employing a... More
  • Self-love is the greatest flatterer in the world. More
  • She had more sand in her than any girl I ever see: in my opinion she was just full of sand. It... More
  • The art of pleasing is the art of deceiving. More
  • The cheering sound of “Dinner is upon the table,” dissolved his reverie.... Mr. Wilkes placed... More
  • The reason that adulation is not displeasing is that, though untrue, it shows one to be of... More
  • The roses you lifted to your lips ... lucky roses! More
  • There is flattery in friendship. More
  • There would be no sunshine in society if the born flatterers, I mean the so-called amiable... More
  • They told me I was everything. ‘Tis a lie, I am not ague-proof. More
  • To flatter and follow others, without being flattered and followed in turn, is but a state of... More
  • To make a man perfectly happy tell him he works too hard, that he spends too much money, that he... More
  • To praise princes for virtues which they have not, is to insult them with impunity. More
  • We sometimes think we dislike flattery, when we only dislike the manner of expressing it. More
  • What is it we heartily wish of each other? Is it to be pleased and flattered? No, but to be... More
  • What really flatters a man is that you think him worth flattering. More
  • Why, what a candy deal of courtesy
    This fawning greyhound then did proffer me! More
  • Women are so much in love with compliments that rather than want them, they will compliment one... More
  • Women who are either indisputably beautiful, or indisputably ugly, are best flattered upon the... More
  • Would I had never trod this English earth!
    Or felt the flatteries that grow upon it;
    Ye... More
  • Wounded pride can take a rich young man far who is surrounded by flatterers since birth. More
  • Your flattery is as full of contempt as your insults were. More
  • “Come, boys, I know there’s kindly hearts among so good a
    crowd—
    To be in such good... More

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