Quotes About Flattery

the American reader cannot bear a surprise. He knows that this is the greatest country on earth…and evidence to the contrary is not admissible. That means no inconvenient facts, no new information. If you really want the reader's attention, you must flatter him. Make his prejudices your own. Tell him things he already knows. He will love your soundness.

If they think you admire them, they will admire you because of your good taste, and when they admire you, you have an illusion for a moment that there's something to admire.

The flattery of posterity is not worth much more than contemporary flattery, which is worth nothing.

Flattery was one of Kissinger's principal tools in winning over Nixon, and a tool he employed shamelessly.

I know imitation is the highest form of flattery, but stealing one's identity is totally different.

The older generation had become uncertain and timid in its ideals and convictions and began to focus on "youth," with thoughts of abdication, flattery, and high expectations.

It is very easy to shun someone who is deliberately cruel, and everyone loathes a man who is brutal and vicious. Such people have a hard time winning followers. But an individual who is gracious, who is attractive, who smiles and flatters and praises - that is a person who can lead whole nations to disaster. Who would not want to follow such a man or woman? Everyone is drawn to beauty and wit.

Friends humor and flatter us, they steal our time, they encourage our love of ease, they make us content with ourselves, they are the foes of our virtue and our glory.

You're absolutely gorgeous. What's your name?

Advertising - A judicious mixture of flattery and threats.

Some people think that evolutionary psychology claims to have discovered that human nature is selfish and wicked. But they are flattering the researchers and anyone who would claim to have discovered the opposite.

I don't call you handsome, sir, though I love you most dearly: far too dearly to flatter you. Don't flatter me.

Baloney is flattery laid on so thick it cannot be true, and blarney is flattery so thin we love it.

The heart of a woman is never so full of affection that there does not remain a little corner for flattery and love.

Direct, forceful, energetic. Loves power, eats up publicity and flattery... Can turn on charm at will and knows it.

Tu está tão bonita, tu nem sabe… Tu parece uma cebola, carnuda e sumarenta, boa de morder… Quem tem razão é o salafra do Vivaldo… Bota cada olho em teu pandeiro, aquele fístula…

Revel in the fulsome flattery, dear fool! It does not stop war from being a filthy trick.

If someone had the ability to sit at every table at once, he would hear nothing but good about himself, and yet even such contortions would pale in comparison to those of the others.

Who knows, my lady?" he said. "Maybe one day when you're a grown woman, your beauty will make Zeus himself fall in love with you and put your image up there as well, for us ordinary men to see and envy." "I can think of better reasons to end up among the stars," I said, smiling at such harmless flattery.

As long as matters are really hopeful," wrote Chesterton, "hope is mere flattery or platitude. It is only when everything is hopeless that hope begins to be a strength at all. Like all the Christian virtues, it is as unreasonable as it is indispensable.

Rapping can be repetition sometimes. Sometimes you gotta highlight your words in a certain kind of way. So I always was a fan of sing-rapping. It was always funny to me a little bit, and I think that being funny and being able to laugh, even at yourself, is a form of flattery.

'Moderate Republican' is simply how the blabocracy flatters Republicans who vote with the Democrats. If it weren't so conspicuous, the 'New York Times' would start referring to 'nice Republicans' and 'mean Republicans'

Listening, not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery.

Imitation is obviously a great form of flattery.