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We swallow with one gulp the lie that flatters us, and drink drop by drop the truth which is bitter to us.
Denis Diderot
It flattered her, where she was most susceptible of flattery, to think how, wound about in their hearts, however long they lived she would be woven...
Virginia Woolf
The more we love our friends, the less we flatter them; it is by excusing nothing that pure love shows itself.
Moli
A fool flatters himself, a wise man flatters the fool.
Edward George BulwerLytton
Self-love is the greatest of all flatterers.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Every flatterer lives at the expense of him who listens to him.
Jean de La Fontaine
I cannot think of any character below the flatterer, except he who envies him.
Sir Richard Steele
For lack of a better term, they've labeled me a sex symbol. It's flattering and it should happen to every bald, overweight guy.
Dennis Franz
Flattery is all right if you don't inhale.
Adlai Stevenson
Look closely at those who patronize you. Half are unfeeling, half untaught.
Johann von Goethe
The reason that adulation is not displeasing is that, though untrue, it shows one to be of consequence enough, in one way or other, to induce people to lie.
Lord (George Gordon) Byron
