Quotes About Flattery

That he is gratified by, encourages, even stimulates the attention of fools and coquettes, I cannot deny; and when I view him indulging a weakness so contemptible, so dangerous, I am almost ready to believe he may be any thing that is vicious; and that, having taken vanity and flattery for his guides, he may attain to the horrid perfection of a successful debauchee.

Our Balzac should be flattered beyond measure by my thinking of him at all. Which I did, but of you more.

People may flatter themselves just as much by thinking that their faults are always present to other people's minds, as if they believe that the world is always contemplating their individual charms and virtues.

Flattery looks like friendship, just like a wolf looks like a dog.

keep telling her how beautiful she looks. Keep on saying that. How beautiful she looks. Lay it on thick. She won't believe you, she's too smart to fall for blarney, but it's what she wants to hear. It's the tribute you must always pay to great beauties when they grow old. Remember it's always the cameraman who grows old, never the star.

A big day for the bootlickers to please the boss by going around to bow to him and shamelessly have a ball.

He is super excited to see a big bunch of bootlickers going to bow before him and beg undue business favour from him and a lot of prepaid people will be brought to stand on both sides of road to wave and do slogan for him.

It always feels good to have good-looking men chasing you around.

There have been many great men that have flattered the people who ne'er loved them.

I guess it's flattering that everyone believed I was those characters, but it also is dehumanizing.

You believe me wise because I taught you once, but I have not been north, as you have. You have seen (what) I have never seen...You flatter me by asking my opinion.

Now let us touch on the vice of Flattery, which comes not gladly from the heart, but from fear or greed. Flattery is generally insincere praise. Flatterers be the Devil's nurses, who nourish his children with the milk of adulation.

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

The dull mind, once arriving at an inference that flatters the desire, is rarely able to retain the impression that the notion from which the inference started was purely problematic.

A dull mind, once arriving at an inference that flatters a desire, is rarely able to retain the impression that the notion from which the inference started was purely problematic.

I lift my voice of warning against praising or flattering your ministers. I have seen the evil, the dreadful evil, of praising ministers. Never, never speak a word in the praise of ministers to their faces. Exalt God.

An Englishman, being flattered, is a lamb; threatened, a lion.

Let no one flatter himself of himself he is Satan. Let man take sin, which is his own, and leave righteousness with God.

None can be pleased without praise, and few can be praised without falsehood.

Just praise is only a debt, but flattery is a present.

A photographer kept shooting me every time I swung. I was very flattered until I found out he was from Field and Stream.

People who plead with you for favours May eventually prove to be great flatterers. Your friends are only those Who all the time cheerfully support Your heart's aspiration-flames.

Donald Trump just needs the ego fed all the time.

When Quiggin ingratiated himself with people—during his days as secretary to St. John Clarke, for example—he was far too shrewd to confine himself to mere flattery. A modicum of bullying was a pleasure both to himself and his patrons.