Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carroll O'Connor

Sheer flattery got me into the theater. Flattery always works with me, particularly the flattery of women.

Charles Caleb Colton

Immitation is the sincerest form of flattery.

Alexander Pope

By flatterers besieged And so obliging that he ne'er obliged.

Dale Carnegie

Flattery is counterfeit, and like counterfeit money, it will eventually get you into trouble if you pass it to someone else.

Christopher Paolini

Of course you like him; everyone enjoys flattery.

Edmund Burke

Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.

Benjamin Franklin

Praise to the undeserving is severe satire.

Benjamin Franklin

A flatterer never seems absurd: The flatter'd always takes his word.

Benjamin Franklin

Approve not of him who commends all you say.

Bethenny Frankel

I have always been a business person.

Walter Salles

There are still 500,000 persons afflicted with leprosy in Latin America, so it is still very much present.

Chris Elliott

I'm not a competitive person.

Cesar Chavez

You cannot uneducate the person who has learned to read.

Al Goldstein

The true success is the person who invented himself.

Aristotle

A person's life persuades better than his word.

Aldo Leopold

An oak is no respecter of persons.

Ali ibn Abi Talib

The most helpless person is the one who is helpless in reforming himself.

Agatha Christie

Your not reliable. You wouldn't be at all a comfortable sort of person to live with.

David Sedaris

I went from having 50 listeners to 50 million listeners.

Moby

A lot of times good, pristine recordings prevent the listener from getting emotionally involved in the music.

Kelly Jones

It's better for the listener to interpret their own meanings to the music.

John Ray

Listeners ne'er hear good of themselves.

Lester Bowie

We expect the listener to have, like, a movie going on when they hear us. That's what it's all about for us.