Flattery Quotes
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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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Flattery succeeds best on minds previously occupied by conceit.
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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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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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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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Sheer flattery got me into the theater. Flattery always works with me, particularly the flattery of women.
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We would seldom be deceived by flattery, did our own conceit not promote the delusion.
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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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Persons who discover a flatterer, do not always disapprove him, because he imagines them considerable enough to deserve his applications.
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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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Nothing is harder to resist than a bit of flattery.
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Nothing is so great an instance of ill-manners as flattery.
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Heart-stopping envy is the sincerest form of flattery.
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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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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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Beware of flattery! 'tis a flowery weed, Which oft offends the very idol-vice, Whose shrine it would perfume.
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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 obviously a great form of flattery.
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Imitation is flattery, and The Hills Have Eyes is a classic.
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Flattery is the worst and falsest way of showing our esteem.
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It is possible to be below flattery as well as above it.
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What I like is bottomless flattery.
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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.
