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Quotes About Ingratiate

You've brought out your best butter." [you're laying on the flattery thickly]
~ Agatha Christie
Never permit yourself to indulge in cheap flattery, which often times means to merely satisfy the individuals vanity and sometimes to ingratiate the flatter into the good graces of the flattered.
~ Harold B. Lee
In almost any country, probably in Russia in particular, it's fashionable to criticise people in power. If you come out in support of someone like me, you're going to be accused of trying to ingratiate yourself.
~ Vladimir Putin
more to curry favor than to educate.
~ Robin Hobb
A little flattery goes a long way.
~ Matthew Hussey
It is not uncommon to hear Arminians describe themselves as "moderately Reformed" in order to ingratiate themselves to the movers and shakers of the evangelical movement.
~ Roger E. Olson
I have a horrible capacity to be unctuous to people I want to impress.
~ Alexander Armstrong
Suck up with subtlety.
~ Guy Kawasaki
You want everything to be harmless, Castorp, that's the sort of fellow you are. You're not at all averse to getting involved in things that are not harmless, but then you treat them as if they were, and you think that will ingratiate you with God and man.
~ Thomas Mann
Nothing like a bit of flattery to grease the wheels.
~ Lindsey Kelk, About a Girl
Cats like men are flatterers.
~ Walter Savage Landor
A lot of women seem to think the way to ingratiate themselves is to put down other women or backstab. That's the quickest way to be eliminated from my life - try that with me, and you're out.
~ Gabrielle Union