Deborah Smith Quotes

Flattery is a lie covered in a bed of flowery words.

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• Flattery is like chewing gum. Enjoy it but don't swallow it.

  

  Hank Ketcham
  • Enjoy
  • Flattery
  • Gum

• 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
  • Money
  • Power
  • Happy

• I've pretty much been portrayed as every style thing you can be. After Wimbledon you are Andy Everyman, who everybody is rooting for. I think the meat and potatoes of who I am hasn't been covered yet.

  

  Andy Roddick
  • Thinking
  • Pretty
  • Style

• Our domestic Napoleons, too many of them, give flattery, bonnets and bracelets to women, and everything else but - justice.

  

  Sara Willis
  • Women
  • Giving
  • Justice

• 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
  • Good
  • True
  • Perfect

• Flattery'll get you anywhere.

  

  Charles Lederer
  • Flattery
  • Anywhere

• 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
  • She
  • Nature
  • Air

• Flattery, if judiciously administered, is always acceptable, however much we may despise the flatterer.

  

  Bill Vaughan
  • May
  • Despise
  • Flattery

• Flattery has a short battery life, but reminding people they are amazing and precious and wanted and works of art can truly change their lives.

  

  Donald Miller
  • People
  • Life
  • Art

• 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
  • People
  • Opportunity
  • Balance

• Your body is sacred. You’re far more precious than diamonds and pearls, and you should be covered too.

  

  Muhammad Ali
  • Body
  • Sacred
  • Covered

• There is no flattery so adroit or effectual as that of implicit assent.

  

  William Hazlitt
  • Flattery
  • Implicit

• 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
  • Kind
  • Flattery
  • Applause

• Imitation is the sincerest flattery.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Imitation
  • Flattery
  • Sincerest

• But here's the joy: my friend and I are one, Sweet flattery!

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Joy
  • Sweet
  • Excitement

• He does me double wrong That wounds me with the flatteries of his tongue.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Doe
  • Tongue
  • Wounds

• Two-thirds of the Earth is covered by water. The other third is covered by Garry Maddox.

  

  Ralph Kiner
  • Earth
  • Water
  • Covered

• As soon as coffee is in your stomach, there is a general commotion. Ideas begin to move…similes arise, the paper is covered. Coffee is your ally and writing ceases to be a struggle.

  

  Honore de Balzac
  • Writing
  • Coffee
  • Covered

• Up until 1920, women couldn't vote. Until 1974, married women couldn't get their own credit cards or, in some cases, their own loans. Basically, the husband's professional, social, and economic identity covered the individual identity of the wife.

  

  Rebecca Traister
  • Husband
  • Professional
  • Economic

• I have a Ph.D. in cell biology. And that's really manual labor. I mean, experimental science, you do it with your hands. So it's very different. You're out there in a lab, cleaning test tubes, and it just wasn't that fascinating.

  

  Barbara Ehrenreich
  • Different
  • Science
  • Hands

• Kate Winslet also happens to be one of my close friends who I goof off with like crazy. It was a reunion of two people who, I guess, are a little bit older, a tiny bit wiser but ultimately were the same as they were when they were 21.

  

  Leonardo DiCaprio
  • People
  • Friends
  • Crazy

• You are the one who loves me into endless life.

  

  Brother Roger
  • Life
  • You
  • Loves

• Flattery is a lie covered in a bed of flowery words.

  

  Deborah Smith
  • Flattery
  • Covered
  • Flowery