Quotes About Flattery

Many a maid have I won by a quarrel, when flattery was in no wise helpful; but take heed that thou art in the wrong, so that thou mayest acknowledge thine error.

To say a compliment well is a high art and few possess it.

A practitioner in panegyric, or, to speak more plainly, a professor of the art of puffing.

Thou art as wise as thou art beautiful

The contrived language and the flattering attitude rarely come with the virtue.

Can't say what impresses me most about my followers – their good looks, their incredible intellects, or their immunity to cheap flattery.

To experience commitment as the loss of options, a type of death, the death of childhood's limitless possibility, of the flattery of choice without duress-this will happen, mark me. Childhood's end.

The bearded creatures are quite as eager for praise, quite as finikin over their toilets, quite as proud of their personal advantages, quite as conscious of their powers of fascination, as any coquette in the world.

Dismiss your vows, your feigned tears, your flattery, for where a heart is hard they make no battery.

Lay not that flattering unction to your soul, That not your trespass but my madness speaks.

I'll read enough When I do see the very book indeed Where all my sins are writ, and that's myself. Give me that glass and therein will I read. No deeper wrinkles yet? Hath sorrow struck So many blows upon this face of mine And made no deeper wounds? O flattering glass, Like to my followers in prosperity Thou dost beguile me!

Think'st thou that duty shall have dread to speak when power to flattery bows?

The devil a puritan that he is, or anything, constantly, but a time-pleaser, an affectioned ass that cons state without book and utters it by great swathes; the best persuaded of himself, so crammed, as he thinks, with excellencies, that it is his grounds of faith that all that look on him love him – and on that vice in him will my revenge find notable cause to work.

Therefore I lie with her and she with me, And in our faults by lies we flatter'd be.

Sit down: thou art no flatterer: I thank thee for it; and heaven forbid That kings should let their ears hear their faults hid!

Though it is a painful fact that most Negroes are hopelessly docile, many of them are filled with fury, and the unctuous coating of flattery which surrounds and encases that fury is but a form of self-preservation.

You're so good looking I can barely keep my eyes on the meter.

And why did the women have to sit upstairs in the synagogue? They were prettier and smarter than the men. Those hirsute zealots who wrapped themselves in prayer shawls on the premier level, nodding up and down like bobbleheads and kissing a string up to some imaginary power who, if he did exist, despite all their begging and flattery, rewarded them with diabetes and acid reflux.

Los lambiscones se esmeran como putas menopáusicas para hacerte creer que son muy útiles.

Let flattery, the handmaid of the vices, be far removed.

I auditioned just for fun. I thought about that the other day after I went to the grocery store and had to sign fifteen autographs before leaving. On one hand, it's just so flattering. On the other hand, sometimes it would be nice to get the bread and leave, you know?

Do not let a flattering woman coax and wheedle you and deceive you she is after your barn.

Johnson's conversation was by much too strong for a person accustomed to obsequiousness and flattery; it was mustard in a young child's mouth!

Erasmus says that you should praise a ruler even for qualities he does not have. For the flattery gives him to think. And the qualities he presently lacks, he might go to work on them.