Quotes About Flattery

Boss, I keep telling you: it's impossible for a woman to lay it on too thick with a man. If you tell a man he's eight feet tall and say it often enough, with your eyes wide and a throb in your voice, he'll start stooping to go through seven-foot doors.) Jake

John was watching her walk away when Harriet found him. "John!" Chen jumped off his stool and flashed an unctuous smile, accelerating from zero to full-on asskiss faster than a screaming Tesla.

Be Frugal with Flattery. It may seem that your superiors cannot get enough flattery, but too much of even a good thing loses its value. It also stirs up suspicion among your peers.

You flatter me shamelessly. I like it. Good.

Lying has a kind of respect and reverence with it. We pay a person the compliment of acknowledging his superiority whenever we lie to him.

And how I flattered myself From time to time with proving to myself Nothing in you could be unknown to me. You don't belong to the mind's calculations, And you disproved each of my demonstrations, Since to be unexpected is your truth.

Dream on," I say. "I will set up a date with one hot girl and make sure she gets the word out about how great you are." "Deal," Tyler says. "On one condition: the hot girl has to be you.

Moreover, I have heard that those who are fond of praising men to their faces are also fond of damning them behind their backs.

These people…flatter others to get favors in return. JUDE 1:16 NLT

The LORD shall cut off all flattering lips…" (PSALM 12:3 KJV). Is flattery worth being cut off from the blessings of God?

I will show partiality to no one, nor will I flatter any man; for if I were skilled in flattery, my Maker would soon take me away" (JOB 32:21-22).

Had Colonel Carrington visited the scene of the Sand Creek Massacre, which occurred only two years before the Fetterman Massacre, he would have seen the same mutilations—committed upon Indians by Colonel Chivington's soldiers. The Indians who ambushed Fetterman were only imitating their enemies, a practice which in warfare, as in civilian life, is said to be the sincerest form of flattery.

Gli uomini per loro natura sono portati a disprezzare i deboli e lusingare i forti.

One swallows the lie that flatters, but sips the bitter truth drop by drop.

Don't get upset when someone copies you, but feel flattered; because an imitation is the best form of flattery. What's more, it's a living proof that you must be on a winning track; because nobody ever imitates a loser.

Imitation is the sincerest flattery.

Imitation is not just the sincerest form of flattery - it's the sincerest form of learning.

the higher one rises in an organization, the more likely it is that people will tell you you're right. People will agree with powerful leaders as a strategy of ingratiation, as nothing is as flattering as others' telling you how right and how smart you are.

He nuzzled her hair. "I've never been with a lady before. I don't know the rules." "Fortunately, I'm an unusual sort of woman. Mrs. Barrington did her best to change that, but she never succeeded, bless her." "Why should she want to change you?" Beth warmed. "My lord, I do believe you are the most flattering man of my acquaintance." Ian paused, his expression unreadable. "I state truths. You are perfect as you are.

And if you flatter yourself that I don't perceive it, you are a fool; and if you think I can be consoled by sweet words, you are an idiot; and if you fancy I'll suffer unrevenged, I'll convince you of the contrary[.]

Crows pick out the eyes of the dead, when the dead have no longer need of them; but flatterers mar the soul of the living, and her eyes they blind.

You're a pretty woman. I'm almost as pretty as that silver wedding ring on your left hand.

Nothing is so silly as the expression of a man who is being complimented.

I'm flattered by the imitators, embarrassed, thoroughly confused. I can't imagine all these people trying to be like Andre Agassi, since I don't want to be Andre Agassi.