Quotes about flattery
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.
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