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“I once had a rose named after me and I was very flattered. But I was not pleased to read the description in the catalogue: no good in a bed, but fine up against a wall.”
Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes |
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“A woman's flattery may inflate a man's head a little; but her criticism goes straight to his heart, and contracts it so that it can never again hold quite as much love for her”
Helen Rowland Quotes |
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“Flattery is telling the other person precisely what he thinks about himself”
Dale Carnegie Quotes |
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“Flattery is like friendship in show, but not in fruit”
Socrates Quotes |
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“Music, even in situations of the greatest horror, should never be painful to the ear but should flatter and charm it, and thereby always remain music.”
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Quotes |
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“Flattery is all right so long as you don't inhale.”
Adlai E. Stevenson Quotes |
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“I can spot empty flattery and know exactly where I stand. In the end it's really only my own approval or disapproval that means anything.”
Agnetha Faltskog Quotes |
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“Republics are created by the virtue, public spirit, and intelligence of the citizens. They fall, when the wise are banished from the public councils, because they dare to be honest, and the profligate are rewarded, because they flatter the people in order to betray them.”
Joseph Story Quotes |
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“Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt of, not swallowed”
Josh Billings Quotes |
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“Flattery is the worst and falsest way of showing our esteem”
Jonathan Swift Quotes |
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“It has been well said that "the arch-flatterer with whom all the
petty flatterers have intelligence is a man's self."”
Unknown Quotes |
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“It has been well said that "the arch-flatterer with whom all the
petty flatterers have intelligence is a man's self."”
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“For there is no faithfulness in their mouth; their inward part is
very wickedness; their throat is an open sepulchre; they flatter
with their tongue.”
Bible Quotes Source: Psalms (ch. V, v. 9)
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“Let flattery, the handmaid of the vices, be far removed (from
friendship).
[Lat., Assentatio, vitiorum adjutrix, procul amoveatur.]”
Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero) Quotes Source: De Amicitia (XXIV)
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“Imitation is the sincerest of flattery.”
Charles Caleb Colton Quotes Source: Lacon (p. 127)
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“Of praise a mere glutton, he swallow'd what came,
And the puff a dunce, he mistook it for fame;
Till his relish grown callous, almost to displease,
Who pepper'd the highest was surest to please.”
Oliver Goldsmith Quotes Source: Retaliation (l. 109)
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“The skilful class of flatterers praise the discourse of an
ignorant friend and the face of a deformed one.
[Lat., Adulandi gens prudentissima laudat
Sermonem indocti, faciem deformis amici.]”
Juvenal (Decimus Junius Juvenal) Quotes Source: Satires (III, 86)
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“We sometimes think that we hate flattery, but we only hate the
manner in which it is done.
[Fr., On croit quelquefoir hair la flatterie; maid on ne hait que
a maniere de flatter.]”
Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld Quotes Source: Maximes (329)
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“Gallantry of mind consists in saying flattering things in an
agreeable manner.”
Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld Quotes Source: Maxims (103)
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“No adulation; 'tis the death of virtue;
Who flatters, is of all mankind the lowest
Save he who courts the flattery.”
Hannah More Quotes Source: Daniel
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“They who delight to be flattered, pay for their folly by a late
repentance.
[Lat., Qu se laudari gaudent verbis subdolis,
Sera dant peonas turpes poenitentia.]”
Phaedrus (Thrace of Macedonia) Quotes Source: Fables (I, 13, 1)
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“By flatterers besieged
And so obliging that he ne'er obliged.”
Alexander Pope Quotes Source: Prologue to Satires (l. 207)
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“It is easier and handier for men to flatter than to praise.
[Ger., Es ist dem Menschen leichter und gelaufiger, zu
schmeicheln als zu loben.]”
Jean Paul Richter Quotes Source: Titan (zykel 34)
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“Mine eyes
Were not in fault, for she was beautiful;
Mine ears, that heard her flattery; nor my heart,
That thought her like her seeming. It had been vicious
To have mistrusted her.”
William Shakespeare Quotes Source: Cymbeline (Cymbeline at V, v)
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“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?
No, let the candied tongue like absurd pomp,
And crook the pregnant hinges of the knee
Where thrift may follow fawning.”
William Shakespeare Quotes Source: Hamlet Prince of Denmark (Hamlet at III, ii)
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