Flattery Quotes
The best sayings about Flattery that you can share on Instagram, Pinterest, Facebook and other social networks!
-
When fortune flatters, she does it to betray.
→ -
I have a car that I call Flattery because it gets me nowhere.
→ -
Feel you the barren flattery of a rhyme? Can poets soothe you, when you pine for bread, By winding myrtle round your ruin'd shed?
→ -
There would be no sunshine in society if the born flatterers, I mean the so-called amiable people, did not bring it in with them.
→ -
The happy phrasing of a compliment is one of the rarest of human gifts, and the happy delivery of it another.
→ -
We strive as hard to hide our hearts from ourselves as from others, and always with more success; for in deciding upon our own case we are both judge, jury, and executioner, and where sophistry cannot overcome the first, or flattery the second, self-love is always ready to defeat the sentence by bribing the third.
→ -
We sometimes imagine we hate flattery, but we only hate the way we are flattered.
→ -
The world is a king, and like a king, desires flattery in return for favor; but true art is selfish and perverse — it will not submit to the mold of flattery.
→ -
Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt, not swallowed.
→ -
Yes, Boss?' Dorcas, the last twenty or thirty years I've been a worthless, no-good parasite.' She yawned again. 'Everybody knows that.' Nevermind the flattery. There comes a time in every man's life when he has to stop being sensible--a time to stand up and be counted--strike a blow for liberty--smite the wicked.' Ummm...' So quit yawning, the time has come.' She glanced down. 'Maybe I had better get dressed.
→ -
Praise is a more ingenious, concealed, and subtle kind of flattery, that satisfies both the giver and the receiver, though by verydifferent ways. The one accepts it as a reward due to his merit; the other gives it that he may be looked upon as a just and discerning person.
→ -
The best way to convince a fool that he is wrong is to let him have his own way.
→ -
He who says he hates all kinds of flattery, and says so in earnest, has undoubtedly not as yet become acquainted with all kinds of it, whether in substance or in form.
→ -
He does me double wrong That wounds me with the flatteries of his tongue.
→ -
There can hardly, I believe, be imagined a more desirable pleasure than that of praise unmixed with any possibility of flattery.
→ -
Flattery is so necessary to us that we flatter one another just to be flattered in return.
→ -
Praise a stranger with a few nice words and he becomes a stranger that calls you a friend.
→ -
Very ugly or very beautiful women should be flattered on their understanding, and mediocre ones on their beauty.
→ -
I have trod a measure, I have flattered a lady, I have been politic with my friend, smooth with mine enemy.
→ -
Flattery was formerly a vice; it has now become the fashion.
→ -
Advertising - a judicious mixture of flattery and threats.
→ -
Adroit observers will find that some who affect to dislike flattery, may yet be flattered indirectly, by a well seasoned abuse and ridicule of their rivals.
→ -
Men who stand in the highest ranks of society seldom hear of their faults; if by any accident an opprobrious clamour reaches their ears, flattery is always at hand to pour in her opiates, to quiet conviction and obtund remorse.
→ -
Nay, do not think I flatter. For what advancement may I hope from thee, That no revenue hast but thy good spirits To feed and clothe thee? Why should the poor be flattered?
→ -
I never pretended to be rock star. I would make a lousy rock star. I don't have the right voice for it. I don't have the "sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll" spirit. But the greatest flattery in the last couple of years is being called a "badass" by young singers.
→ -
Persons who discover a flatterer, do not always disapprove him, because he imagines them considerable enough to deserve his applications.
→ -
[Samuel] Johnson's conversation was by much too strong for a person accustomed to obsequiousness and flattery; it was mustard in a young child's mouth!
→ -
He who knows how to flatter also knows how to slander.
→ -
We despise no source that can pay us a pleasing attention.
→ -
Human life is thus only a perpetual illusion; men deceive and flatter each other. No one speaks of us in our presence as he does of us in our absence. Human society is founded on mutual deceit; few friendships would endure if each knew what his friend said of him in his absence, although he then spoke in sincerity and without passion.
→
Top Authors
-
-
-
-
Richard E. Grant Actor -
Rich Gunnell American football wide receiver -
Ric Keller American Politician -
Richard Moran Author -
Rick Barry Basketball player -
Richard Willstatter Chemist -
Red Buttons Comedian -
Raymond Keene Journalist -
Rich Karlgaard Journalist -
Rick Bragg Journalist -
Raymond Smullyan Mathematician -
Reverend Billy C. Wirtz Musician -
Renata Salecl Philosopher -
-
Richard Polanco Political leader -
Richard Keys Presenter -
Richard Brown Rugby Player -
Richard Walters Singer-songwriter -
Richard Hastings Soccer player -
Reinhard Bendix Sociologist -
Red Barber Sports commentator -
Rick Reilly Sportswriter -
Red Haircrow Writer
-
Rene Crevel Writer -
Richard Mabey Writer -
Richard Watson Writer -
Rick Elice Writer
Share our collection of quotes on social networks – this will allow as many people as possible to find inspiring quotes about Flattery!