Quotes about flatter
flattery sincerity jugglers
Flattery is a juggler, and no kin unto sincerity. Thomas Browne
flattery flattered
He that is much flattered soon learns to flatter himself. Samuel Johnson
flattery praise easy
It is easy to flatter; it is harder to praise. Jean Paul
flattery expenses flatterer
Every flatterer lives at the expense of him who listens to him. Jean de La Fontaine
flattery virtue flattering
One can also be undignified and flattering toward a virtue. Friedrich Nietzsche
flattering great heard notable skill
I've heard a great many flattering things about Roosevelt, but never that he was notable for his skill in administration.
flattering
It was flattering to get them in Brevard.
flattery form guess interested last people putting twisted
It?s like, 'Surely this is going to be the last one? This will be the last one.' And they just keep putting them out. But I guess in some strange, twisted way it?s a form of flattery in that people are interested in what?s going on with us. But it is frustrating. Nick Lachey
flattering games home people
It's flattering to see people show up for our home games from the community.
flattering forward looking
It's flattering to be considered. I'm looking forward to it.
flattering audience pleasant
An audience is pleasant if you have it, it is flattering and flattering is agreeable always, but if you have an audience the being an audience is their business, they are the audience you are the writer, let each attend to their own business. Gertrude Stein
flattery praise delicate
Praise is flattery, artful, hidden, delicate, which gratifies differently him who praises and him who is praised. The one takes it as the reward of merit, the other bestows it to show his impartiality and knowledge. Francois de La Rochefoucauld
flattery harm ifs
If we did not flatter ourselves, the flattery of others could never harm us.
flattery youngsters
Flattery is useful when dealing with youngsters. Isaac Asimov
flattery persons listeners
The most skillful flattery is to let a person talk on, and be a listener. Joseph Addison
flattery contemporary posterity
The flattery of posterity is not worth much more than contemporary flattery, which is worth nothing. Jorge Luis Borges
flattery manners ill
Nothing is so great an instance of ill-manners as flattery. Jonathan Swift
flattery roof
Flattery will get you everywhere," Sam says, "Except, apparently, off a roof. Holly Black
flattery please fastidious
Flatter me, but delicately, please, for I am fastidious. Mason Cooley
flattery insult contempt
Your flattery is as full of contempt as your insults were.
flattery insult imitation
Imitation is always insult--not flattery. Frank Lloyd Wright
flattery form greatest headlines irritates jealousy maybe outside private school seeing small somebody
Tell me a private school that won?t take somebody outside their parish. Jealousy is the greatest form of flattery and that?s about it. Maybe this is being paranoid, but we?re a small town, and what irritates me is if (Mayo and Walker) went to a bigger, private school, we?d be seeing headlines about how great this is.
flattering bits
The scoreline is a bit flattering really. Kenny Dalglish
flattery compliment delivery
The happy phrasing of a compliment is one of the rarest of human gifts, and the happy delivery of it another. Mark Twain
flattery
Flattery will get you everywhere. Mae West
flattery conceit delusion
We would seldom be deceived by flattery, did our own conceit not promote the delusion. Norm MacDonald
flattery thick objects
Flattery must be pretty thick before anybody objects to it.... William Feather
flattery imagine enough
Persons who discover a flatterer, do not always disapprove him, because he imagines them considerable enough to deserve his applications. William Shenstone
flattery implicit
There is no flattery so adroit or effectual as that of implicit assent. William Hazlitt