Carolyn Wells Quotes
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Flattery is like chewing gum. Enjoy it but don't swallow it.
Hank Ketcham -
If you want to make an ordinary man happy, or think that he is happy, give him money, power, flattery, gifts, honours. If you want to make a wise man happy - improve yourself!
Idries Shah -
Our domestic Napoleons, too many of them, give flattery, bonnets and bracelets to women, and everything else but - justice.
Sara Willis -
Nothing annoys people so much as not receiving invitations.
Oscar Wilde -
Let it not, therefore, be said that the Sovereign is not subject to the laws of his State; since the contrary is a true proposition of the right of nations, which flattery has sometimes attacked but good princes have always defended as the tutelary divinity of their dominions. How much more legitimate is it to say with the wise Plato, that the perfect felicity of a kingdom consists in the obedience of subjects to their prince, and of the prince to the laws, and in the laws being just and constantly directed to the public good!
Jean-Jacques Rousseau -
Implementation is the sincerest form of flattery.
L Peter Deutsch
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Flattery'll get you anywhere.
Charles Lederer -
Nature has hardly formed a woman ugly enough to be insensible to flattery upon her person; if her face is so shocking that she must in some degree be conscious of it, her figure and her air, she trusts, make ample amends for it.
Bill Vaughan -
Flattery, if judiciously administered, is always acceptable, however much we may despise the flatterer.
Bill Vaughan -
There's a certain balance between finding an opportunity to do what you really enjoy and getting caught up in the flattery of people wanting you to do things.
Jim Gaffigan -
Flattery of the verbal kind is gross. In short, applause is of too coarse a nature to be swallowed in the gross, though the extract or tincture be ever so agreeable.
William Shenstone -
But here's the joy: my friend and I are one, Sweet flattery!
William Shakespeare
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He does me double wrong That wounds me with the flatteries of his tongue.
William Shakespeare -
Flattery must be pretty thick before anybody objects to it.
William Feather -
There is no other way to guard yourself against flattery than by making men understand that telling you the truth will not offend you.
Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli -
Imitation is not just the sincerest form of flattery - it's the sincerest form of learning.
George Bernard Shaw -
Nothing is harder to resist than a bit of flattery.
Arnold Lobel -
Flattery is a lie covered in a bed of flowery words.
Deborah Smith
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People who have had power, when they become powerless, are really tragic.... We just allow ourselves to be conditioned by a society so we become as important as we're supposed to be.
Maggie Kuhn -
What is childlike humility? It’s not the lack of intelligence, but the lack of guile. The lack of an agenda.
Todd Burpo -
When I was 12, my feet were so small, I wore my sisters' glitter shoes. My dad would whoop me: 'You're not going to school now, you'll embarrass us!'
Young Thug -
Invitation is the sincerest flattery.
Carolyn Wells