Flattery Quotes
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Flattery is praise insincerely given for an interested purpose.
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There is flattery in friendship.
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No man of high and generous spirit is ever willing to indulge in flattery; the good may feel affection for others, but will not flatter them.
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Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery that mediocrity can pay to greatness.
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Knavery and flattery are blood relations.
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Immigration is the sincerest form of flattery.
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Nothing says, 'I pay attention to detail!' like footwear flattery from a boy.
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Flattery is like chewing gum. Enjoy it but don't swallow it.
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Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.
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Flattery, though a base coin, is the necessary pocket money at court; where, by custom and consent, it has obtained such a currency that it is no longer a fraudulent, but a legal payment.
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The firmest purpose of a woman's heart to well-timed, artful flattery may yield.
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The aim of flattery is to soothe and encourage us by assuring us of the truth of an opinion we have already formed about ourselves.
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If you had told Sycorax that her son Caliban was as handsome as Apollo, she would have been pleased, witch as she was.
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They told me I was everything. 'Tis a lie, I am not ague-proof.
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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!
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Imitation is not just the sincerest form of flattery - it's the sincerest form of learning.
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Flattery'll get you anywhere.
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Flattery, if judiciously administered, is always acceptable, however much we may despise the flatterer.
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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!
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Flattery makes fools of the best of us.
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Our domestic Napoleons, too many of them, give flattery, bonnets and bracelets to women, and everything else but - justice.
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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.
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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.
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I like rudeness a great deal better than flattery.
