Quotes About Flattery

People can be induced to swallow anything, provided it is sufficiently seasoned with praise.

La culpa no es de los aduladores, sino del que quiere ser adulado.

Je puis croire ces mots, un artifice honnête. Je ne me fierai point à des propos si doux, Qu'un peu de ses faveurs, après quoi je soupire, Ne vienne m'assurer tout ce qu'ils m'ont pu dire.

A lover pays his court where his heart has taken root; he aims at gaining every one's favour in that spot; and so as to have no one opposed to his flame, he endeavours to please the very house-dog.

The more we love someone, the less we flatter them; it is by excusing nothing that true love shows itself.

I become quite melancholy and deeply grieved to see men behave to each other as they do. Everywhere I find nothing but base flattery, injustice , self-interest, deceit and roguery. I cannot bear it any longer; I'm furious; and my intention is to break with all mankind.

There is nothing I detest so much as the contortions of these great time-and-lip servers, these affable dispensers of meaningless embraces, these obliging utterers of empty words, who view every one in civilities

He's a wonderful talker, who has the art of telling you nothing in a great harangue.

The more we love our friends, the less we flatter them; it is by excusing nothing that pure love shows itself.

My ignorance is trying to flatter me that I know everything.

People have mastered flattery to the point that it has become a new street language.

The so-called "innocents" are still wearing the skins of sheep to cover their evil intentions. Thus, we must avoid flatterers at any cost, so as not to become their victims.

He who knows how to flatter also knows how to slander.

Dornan gave me a wink, as if to say he saw I was glowing under a bit of flattery as much as anyone else in the room.

I wondered whether to file flattery under useful teaching technique or craven behavior.

They appear strangely flattered by the ekename.

Flattery will get you nowhere. (In response to Wally George calling his band vile and evil.)

çevrendeki her ?eyi kesin çizgilerle ikiye ay?rd?n. (Bu bak?mdan da sana benzedi?imi itiraf etmeliyim.) Dünyada yaln?z güzellerle çirkinler vard?, bir insan ya ak?ll?yd? ya da aptal, senin gibi ba??n? dik tutmas?n? bilemeyen bütün insanlar dalkavuktu; sana benzemeyen kibar davran??l? insanlar? da züppelikle suçlard?n.

And of course he was flattered that she wanted him. He was human, and no doubt tired of being alone.

Modesty is the gentle art of enhancing your charm by pretending not to be aware of it.

I don't want any description of me to be accurate. I want it to be flattering.

This means that, bad though it is and dangerous though its slipway may prove, there is a sense in which hypocrisy may be preferable to wickedness. Hypocrisy still cares enough about virtue to want to pretend to be virtuous, or at least it recognizes that the society around still prizes virtue enough to make it worth flattering.

It is impossible to enter into fellowship with God when you are in a critical mood. Criticism serves to make you harsh, vindictive, and cruel, and leaves you with the soothing and flattering idea that you are somehow superior to others.

Criticism serves to make you harsh, vindictive, and cruel, and leaves you with the soothing and flattering idea that you are somehow superior to others.