Flattery Quotes
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Persons who discover a flatterer, do not always disapprove him, because he imagines them considerable enough to deserve his applications.
William Shenstone -
Flattery is praise without foundation.
Eliza Leslie
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One may define flattery as a base companionship which is most advantageous to the flatterer.
Theophrastus -
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.
Seneca the Younger -
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.
Abraham Isaac Kook -
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.
William Butler Yeats -
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 -
What wouldst thou do, old man? Think'st thou that duty shall have dread to speak When power to flattery bows?
William Shakespeare
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We would seldom be deceived by flattery, did our own conceit not promote the delusion.
Norm MacDonald -
I have trod a measure, I have flattered a lady, I have been politic with my friend, smooth with mine enemy.
William Shakespeare -
Sheer flattery got me into the theater. Flattery always works with me, particularly the flattery of women.
Carroll O'Connor -
The rich man despises those who flatter him too much, and hates those who do not flatter him at all.
Charles Maurice de Talleyrand -
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.
William Shakespeare -
Flattery is the worst and falsest way of showing our esteem.
Jonathan Swift
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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 -
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.
William Ernest Henley -
Nothing is so great an instance of ill-manners as flattery.
Jonathan Swift -
Flattery succeeds best on minds previously occupied by conceit.
Norm MacDonald -
Beware of flattery! 'tis a flowery weed, Which oft offends the very idol-vice, Whose shrine it would perfume.
Elijah Fenton -
Imitation is flattery, and The Hills Have Eyes is a classic.
Michael Berryman
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What I like is bottomless flattery.
Peter O'Toole -
Imitation is obviously a great form of flattery.
Peyton Manning -
I have always hated biography, and more especially, autobiography. If biography, the writer invariably finds it necessary to plaster the subject with praises, flattery and adulation and to invest him with all the Christian graces. If autobiography, the same plan is followed, but the writer apologizes for it.
Carolyn Wells -
It is possible to be below flattery as well as above it.
Charles R. Forbes