Flattery Quotes
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Advertising - a judicious mixture of flattery and threats.
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The rich man despises those who flatter him too much, and hates those who do not flatter him at all.
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The voice of flattery affects us after it has ceased, just as after a concert men find some agreeable air ringing in their ears to the exclusion of all serious business.
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What wouldst thou do, old man? Think'st thou that duty shall have dread to speak When power to flattery bows?
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Sheer flattery got me into the theater. Flattery always works with me, particularly the flattery of women.
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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.
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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.
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We would seldom be deceived by flattery, did our own conceit not promote the delusion.
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Persons who discover a flatterer, do not always disapprove him, because he imagines them considerable enough to deserve his applications.
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Nothing is harder to resist than a bit of flattery.
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When one looks truly at the good side of everyone, others come to love him very naturally, and he does not need even a speck of flattery.
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Nothing is so great an instance of ill-manners as flattery.
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Pointed criticism, if accurate, often gives the artist an inner sense of relief. The criticism that damages is that which disparages, dismisses, ridicules, or condemns.
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Women are hard and proud and stubborn-hearted, Their heads being turned with praise and flattery; And that is why their lovers are afraid To tell them a plain story.
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Heart-stopping envy is the sincerest form of flattery.
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Beware of flattery! 'tis a flowery weed, Which oft offends the very idol-vice, Whose shrine it would perfume.
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We make ourselves fools to disport ourselves And spend our flatteries to drink those men Upon whose age we void it up again With poisonous spite and envy.
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Imitation is obviously a great form of flattery.
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I have trod a measure, I have flattered a lady, I have been politic with my friend, smooth with mine enemy.
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Imitation is flattery, and The Hills Have Eyes is a classic.
