Quotes About Flattery

At first, I was grateful to be the object of such intense desire. Yet what's flattering in the first year can be suffocating in the eighth.

One unadvertised hazard in the life of a plutocrat is that the people around you can be prone to yes-man sycophancy.

One of the things I hear a lot from people is how they found my book, or how they've shared it with other people. This always warms my bitter old heart, not just because I like selling more books, (though I do) but because reccomending a book to a friend is one of the most sincere forms of flattery there is. If you read someone I wrote and like it enough to tell a friend, that means I've done something right. That means more to me than any sort of professional review….

Cease these sweet words," I protested. "You seek to bend me to your will, but it will not work. Your flattery is naught to me but wind!

He didn't know a thing about her, not even after ten years, but she loved the air of knowingness; the flattery that didn't obligate her. And she liked his somewhat battered face, the close-fitting English suits he bought from a London salesman who stopped at a mid-town hotel each year to take orders, the Italian shoes he said were part of his seducer's costume. He wasn't a seducer. He was remote. He was like a man preceded into a room by acrobats.

Don't be difficult, Denys," Nell chided. "All women like a little flattery from time to time." "What if they didn't? What if they simply liked themselves and no one needed to bend backwards to flatter them? Wouldn't it all be simpler then?

All women like a little flattery from time to time." "What if they didn't? What if they simply liked themselves and no one needed to bend backwards to flatter them? Wouldn't it all be simpler then?" "We're only talking about compliments, Denys," Berkeley said. "Don't be so dramatic.

advertid que es baja acción, que sólo a una fiera toca, madre de engaño y traición, el halagar con la boca y matar con la intención.

When the weatherman spoke he did so in smooth, rolling clauses, full of long words such as schoolmasters use when they are teasing a favored pupil, but he told them very little about himself. His talk was like cotton candy, that huge sweet bauble that fills the eye but leaves little in your belly when you've eaten it.

For I do not know how to flatter, or my Maker would remove me in an instant.

They lie to one another; they speak with flattering lips and a double heart.

May the LORD cut off all flattering lips and every boastful tongue.

With her great persuasion she entices him; with her flattering lips she lures him.

A lying tongue hates those it crushes, and a flattering mouth causes ruin.

He who rebukes a man will later find more favor than one who flatters with his tongue.

A man who flatters his neighbor spreads a net for his feet.

So the administrators and satraps went together to the king and said, “O King Darius, may you live forever!

With flattery he will corrupt those who violate the covenant, but the people who know their God will firmly resist him.

For such people are not serving our Lord Christ, but their own appetites. By smooth talk and flattery they deceive the hearts of the naive.

As you know, we never used words of flattery or any pretext for greed. God is our witness!

These men are discontented grumblers, following after their own lusts; their mouths spew arrogance; they flatter others for their own advantage.