Flattery Quotes
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Our domestic Napoleons, too many of them, give flattery, bonnets and bracelets to women, and everything else but - justice.
Sara Willis -
Flattery is like a painted armor; only for show.
Socrates
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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.
William Shenstone -
He does me double wrong That wounds me with the flatteries of his tongue.
William Shakespeare -
There is no flattery so adroit or effectual as that of implicit assent.
William Hazlitt -
The world's flattery and hypocrisy is a sweet morsel: eat less of it, for it is full of fire. Its fire is hidden while its taste is manifest, but its smoke becomes visible in the end.
Rumi -
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 -
Flattery must be pretty thick before anybody objects to it.
William Feather
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If imitation is the greatest form of flattery,
James Anthony Robinson -
Imitation is the sincerest flattery.
Mahatma Gandhi -
Though flattery blossoms like friendship, yet there is a vast difference in the fruit.
Socrates -
I am an actor and of course I respond very positively to flattery.
Julia Roberts -
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
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A fool can no more see his own folly than he can see his ears.
William Makepeace Thackeray -
Flattery in courtship is the highest insolence, for whilst it pretends to bestow on you more than you deserve, it is watching an opportunity to take from you what you really have.
Sarah Fielding -
But here's the joy: my friend and I are one, Sweet flattery!
William Shakespeare -
Flattery is a lie covered in a bed of flowery words.
Deborah Smith -
Slander, in the strict meaning of the term, comes under the head of lying; but it is a kind of lying which, like its antithesis flattery, ought to be set apart for special censure.
Washington Gladden -
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
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Advertising - a judicious mixture of flattery and threats.
Northrop Frye -
We never slam the door on flattery, we nudge it shut like a man rejecting his mistress: if she nudges back, we're delighted and if she breaks it down, we rejoice.
Walter Wangerin -
Heart-stopping envy is the sincerest form of flattery.
Anna Godbersen -
Persons who discover a flatterer, do not always disapprove him, because he imagines them considerable enough to deserve his applications.
William Shenstone