Quotes by Flattery It is easy to flatter; it is harder to praise. Jean Paul flattery praise easy Of all sorts of flattery, that which comes from a solemn character and stands before a sermon is the worst-complexioned. Such commendation is a satire upon the author, makes the text look mercenary, and disables the discourse from doing service. Jeremy Collier flattery character looks Because nothing says flattery like a gun to the head. Jim Butcher flattery gun To ask advice is in nine cases out of ten to tout for flattery. John Churton Collins flattery nine advice Look closely at those who patronize you. Half are unfeeling, half untaught. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe flattery half looks Never patronise someone who knows they don't deserve it, for they will be quick to compliment your failures. John Stride flattery knows compliment Nothing is so great an example of bad manners as flattery. If you flatter all the company, you please none; If you flatter only one or two, you offend the rest. Jonathan Swift flattery example two The most skillful flattery is to let a person talk on, and be a listener. Joseph Addison skillful flattery persons The flattery of posterity is not worth much more than contemporary flattery, which is worth nothing. Jorge Luis Borges flattery posterity contemporary Where Young must torture his invention To flatter knaves, or lose his pension. Jonathan Swift knaves flattery invention Flattery is the worst and falsest way of showing our esteem. Jonathan Swift flattery worst way If men of eminence are exposed to censure on one hand, they are as much liable to flattery on the other. If they receive reproaches which are not due to them, they likewise receive praises which they do not deserve. Joseph Addison flattery men hands Direct, forceful, energetic. Loves power, eats up publicity and flattery... Can turn on charm at will and knows it. Joseph Stilwell power-of-love publicity flattery Nothing is so great an instance of ill-manners as flattery. Jonathan Swift flattery ill manners Whitney: You black-hearted, treacherous, conniving scoundrel. Clayton: Your flattery warms my heart Judith McNaught flattery black heart I am an actor and of course I respond very positively to flattery. Julia Roberts very-positive flattery actors Some folks pay a compliment like they went down in their pocket for it. Kin Hubbard flattery pockets pay Flattery won't hurt you if you don't swallow it. Kin Hubbard flattery ifs hurt Implementation is the sincerest form of flattery. L Peter Deutsch flattery implementation form Love of another is merely empty flattery and self-deception for one who cannot accept himself without pretense. L.E. Modesitt Jr. flattery deception self «1234567891011»
