Quotes About Flattery

Flatter me, and I may not believe you. Criticize me, and I may not like you. Ignore me, and I may not forgive you. Encourage me, and I may not forget you.

Flatter me, and I may not believe you. Criticize me, and I may not like you. Ignore me, and I may not forgive you. Encourage me, and I will not forget you. Love me and I may be forced to love you.

Flatter me, and I may not believe you. Criticize me, and I may not like you. Ignore me, and I may not forgive you. Encourage me, and I will not forget you.

it is better to fall in with crows than with flatterers; for in the one case you are devoured when dead, in the other case while alive.

Much did I rage when young,Being by the world oppressed,But now with flattering tongueIt speeds the parting guest.

O, popular applause! what heart of man is proof against thy sweet, seducing charms?

We are so concerned to flatter the majority that we lose sight of how very often it is necessary, in order to preserve freedom for the minority, let alone for the individual, to face that majority down.

His subject thou art whom thou crownest in thy heart, and not whom thou flatterest with thy lips.

That which attracts the world must please and pander to the self-importance of man. The world itself is a vain show, and likes its own. Consequently there is nothing which so carries the mass of men along with it as that which flatters the vanity of the human mind. It may assume the lowliest air, but sinful man seeks his own honour and present exaltation.

Snark often functions as an enforcer of mediocrity and conformity. In its cozy knowingness, snark flatters you by assuming that you get the contemptuous joke. You've been admitted, or readmitted, to a club, though it may be the club of the second-rate.

When a man comes up to a woman he doesn't know, he's supposed to say lovely things. Could there ever be a male kamikaze who'd stop a woman and fling at her, "How can you be wearing those shoes? Your toes look like they're in a gulag. It's shameful, you're Stalin when it comes to your feet!" Who would say such a thing? Certainly not François, who'd wisely settled on the complimentary approach.

David Halberstam quoted Lyndon Johnson saying of a staffer: "I want him to kiss my ass in Macy's window at high noon and tell me it smells like roses.

He might be quick to smile and adept at handing out compliments, but his smile never reached his eyes.

To pray to God is to flatter oneself that with words one can alter nature.

God was treated like this powerful, erratic, rather punitive father who has to be pacified and praised. You know, flattered.

Among the many strange servilities mistaken for pieties, one of the least lovely is that which hopes to flatter God by despising the world, and vilifying human nature.

The god-who-serves-ME requires flattery, not worship.

A little flattery makes people feel good about themselves. When you notice someone looking great, give them a compliment.

It's very strange that people would consider me a fashion muse but it's also flattering. I try to just be myself, and wear what's comfortable and makes me feel good.

A flatterer can risk everything with great personages.

Flattery is saying something nice in order to help yourself. Encouragement is saying something true in order help someone else.

The voice of history is often little more than the organ of hatred or flattery.

A girl's got to do what she's got to do to make somebody pay her a compliment. If that means moaning 'til the cows come home, then so be it.

Nothing in this world is harder than speaking the truth, nothing easier than flattery.