Flattery Quotes - page 2

His (Deschamps') complaint of court life was the same as is made of government at the top in any age: it was composed of hypocrisy, flattery, lying, paying and betraying; it was where calumny and cupidity reigned, common sense lacked, truth dared not appear, and where to survive one had to be deaf, blind, and dumb. (Barbara Tuchman)
Flattery won't hurt you if you don't swallow it. View quote
Kin Hubbard
Flattery must be pretty thick before anybody objects to it. View quote
William Feather
I am not one of those who left the land to the mercy of its enemies. Their flattery leaves me cold, my songs are not for them to praise. View quote
Anna Akhmatova
Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt, not swallowed. View quote
Josh Billings
And what else did John have in mind but what is virtuous, so that he could not endure a wicked union even in the king's case, saying: "It is not lawful for thee to have her to wife." He could have been silent, had he not thought it unseemly for himself not to speak the truth for fear of death, or to make the prophetic office yield to the king, or to indulge in flattery. He knew well that he would die as he was against the king, but he preferred virtue to safety. Yet what is more expedient than the suffering which brought glory to the saint. View quote
Ambrose
When a woman has not received much flattery in her life, she will be seduced. View quote
Melina Marchetta
Between flattery and admiration there often flows a river of contempt. View quote
Minna Antrim
Gossip is what you say about the objects of flattery when they aren't present. View quote
P. J. O'Rourke
Imitation is flattery. View quote
Rick Riordan
Flattery will get you everywhere," Sam says, "Except, apparently, off a roof. (Holly Black)
I have already settled it for myself so flattery and criticism go down the same drain and I am quite free. View quote
Georgia O'Keeffe
If you want to make an ordinary man happy, or think that he is happy, give him money, power, flattery, gifts, honours. If you want to make a wise man happy - improve yourself! View quote
Idries Shah
In my experience, there are two things that no one will admit to: having no sense of humor and being susceptible to flattery. View quote
Margaret George
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. View quote
Agnetha Faltskog
I know imitation is the highest form of flattery, but stealing one's identity is totally different. View quote
AnnaLynne McCord
Sheer flattery got me into the theater. Flattery always works with me, particularly the flattery of women. View quote
Carroll O'Connor
Flattery is like chewing gum. Enjoy it but don't swallow it. View quote
Hank Ketcham
My cut is blunt and futuristic, and Nicki Minaj started wearing that bob on her head after she came to my show, so at the end of the day, I know what I do, and I know what I possess, and I know who I am. I'm a trendsetter. The biggest form of flattery is imitation, so I'm flattered. View quote
Lil' Mama
Imitation is flattery, and The Hills Have Eyes is a classic. View quote
Michael Berryman
Flattery in courtship is the highest insolence, for whilst it pretends to bestow on you more than you deserve, it is watching an opportunity to take from you what you really have. (Sarah Fielding)
Sometimes, idealistic people are put off the whole business of networking as something tainted by flattery and the pursuit of selfish advantage. But virtue in obscurity is rewarded only in Heaven. To succeed in this world you have to be known to people. View quote
Sonia Sotomayor
A little flattery will support a man through great fatigue. View quote
James Monroe
It is impossible for any man, when the most favourable circumstances concur, to acquire sufficient knowledge and strength of mind to discharge the duties of a king, entrusted with uncontrolled power; how then must they be violated when his very elevation is an insuperable bar to the attainment of either wisdom or virtue; when all the feelings of a man are stifled by flattery, and reflection shut out by pleasure! Surely it is madness to make the fate of thousands depend on the caprice of a weak fellow creature, whose very station sinks him NECESSARILY below the meanest of his subjects! But one power should not be thrown down to exalt another--for all power intoxicates weak man; and its abuse proves, that the more equality there is established among men, the more virtue and happiness will reign in society. View quote
Mary Wollstonecraft
Because nothing says flattery like a gun to the head. View quote
Jim Butcher