Flattery Quotes
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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
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Implementation is the sincerest form of flattery.
L Peter Deutsch
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Flattery is like a painted armor; only for show.
Socrates
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Never permit yourself to indulge in cheap flattery, which often times means to merely satisfy the individuals vanity and sometimes to ingratiate the flatter into the good graces of the flattered.
Harold B. Lee
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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
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To thee, fair Freedom! I retire From flattery, cards, and dice, and din: Nor art thou found in mansions higher Than the low cot, or humble inn.
William Shenstone
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If imitation is the greatest form of flattery,
James Anthony Robinson
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Though flattery blossoms like friendship, yet there is a vast difference in the fruit.
Socrates
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Flattery must be pretty thick before anybody objects to it.
William Feather
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He does me double wrong That wounds me with the flatteries of his tongue.
William Shakespeare
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There is no flattery so adroit or effectual as that of implicit assent.
William Hazlitt
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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
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Imitation is the sincerest flattery.
Mahatma Gandhi
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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
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I am an actor and of course I respond very positively to flattery.
Julia Roberts
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Sheer flattery got me into the theater. Flattery always works with me, particularly the flattery of women.
Carroll O'Connor
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But here's the joy: my friend and I are one, Sweet flattery!
William Shakespeare
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Flattery is a lie covered in a bed of flowery words.
Deborah Smith
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Flattery succeeds best on minds previously occupied by conceit.
Norm MacDonald
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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
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A fool can no more see his own folly than he can see his ears.
William Makepeace Thackeray
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If solitude deprives of the benefit of advice, it also excludes from the mischief of flattery. But the absence of others' applause is generally supplied by the flattery of one's own breast.
William Benton Clulow
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I have always found it interesting... that there are people who regard copyright infringement as a form of flattery.
Tom Lehrer
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Flattery is praise without foundation.
Eliza Leslie