Flattery Quotes

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If we did not flatter ourselves the flattery from others wou

If we did not flatter ourselves the flattery from others would not harm us.

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In the best, the friendliest and simplest relations flattery

In the best, the friendliest and simplest relations flattery or praise is necessary, just as grease is necessary to keep wheels turning.

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Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.

Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.

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I would rather hear the pleased laugh of a child over some f

I would rather hear the pleased laugh of a child over some feature of my exhibition than receive as I did the flattering compliments of the Prince of Wales.

P. T. (Phineas Taylor) Barnum

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What a situation!' cried Miss Squeers; '...What is the reaso

What a situation!' cried Miss Squeers; '...What is the reason that men fall in love with me, whether I like it or not, and desert their chosen intendeds for my sake?' 'Because they can't help it, miss,' replied the girl; 'the reason's plain.' (If Miss Squeers were the reason, it was very plain.)

Charles Dickens

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What really flatters a man is that you think him worth flatt

What really flatters a man is that you think him worth flattering.

George Bernard Shaw

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A flatterer is one who says things to your face that he woul

A flatterer is one who says things to your face that he wouldn't say behind your back.

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The coin that is most current among mankind is flattery: the

The coin that is most current among mankind is flattery: the only benefit of which is that by hearing what we are not, we may be instructed on what to become.

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Women who are either indisputably beautiful, or indisputably

Women who are either indisputably beautiful, or indisputably ugly, are best flattered upon the score of their understandings; but those who are in a state of mediocrity are best flattered upon their beauty, or at least their graces: for every woman who is not absolutely ugly, thinks herself handsome.

Lord Chesterfield

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I'll read enoughWhen I do see the very book indeedWhere all

I'll read enoughWhen I do see the very book indeedWhere all my sins are writ, and that's myself.Give me that glass and therein will I read.No deeper wrinkles yet? Hath sorrow struckSo many blows upon this face of mineAnd made no deeper wounds?O flattering glass,Like to my followers in prosperityThou dost beguile me!

William Shakespeare

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Flattery makes friends and truth makes enemies.

Flattery makes friends and truth makes enemies.

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Baloney is flattery laid on so thick it cannot be true, and

Baloney is flattery laid on so thick it cannot be true, and blarney is flattery so thin we love it.

Fulton John Sheen

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Don't flatter the rich, or appear to willing before the grea

Don't flatter the rich, or appear to willing before the great.

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Flatter not thyself in thy faith in God if thou hast not cha

Flatter not thyself in thy faith in God if thou hast not charity for thy neighbor.

Francis Quarles

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What valor cannot win, flattery may.

What valor cannot win, flattery may.

Publilius Syrus, Sententiae, no.

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. . . although a skilful flatterer is a most delightful comp

. . . although a skilful flatterer is a most delightful companion, if you can keep him all to yourself, his taste becomes very doubtful when he takes to complimenting other people.

Charles Dickens, Nicholas Nickle

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'Tis an old maxim in the schools,That flattery's the food of

'Tis an old maxim in the schools,That flattery's the food of fools;Yet now and then your men of witWill condescend to take a bit.

Jonathan Swift, Cadenus and Vane

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He does me double wrongThat wounds me with the flatteries of

He does me double wrongThat wounds me with the flatteries of his tongue.

William Shakespeare, Richard II

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He that flatters you more than you desire either has deceive

He that flatters you more than you desire either has deceived you or wishes to deceive.

Italian Proverb

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Knavery and flattery are blood relations.

Knavery and flattery are blood relations.

Abraham Lincoln

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