Quotes by Flattery We despise no source that can pay us a pleasing attention. Mark Twain flattery pay attention Your flattery is as full of contempt as your insults were. Mason Cooley insult contempt flattery To say a compliment well is a high art and few possess it. Mark Twain flattery compliment art Flatter me, but delicately, please, for I am fastidious. Mason Cooley fastidious flattery please Flattery has to overcome my mistrust, and it does. Mason Cooley flattery overcoming doe Flattery and insults raise the same question: What do you want? Mason Cooley insult flattery want When a woman has not received much flattery in her life, she will be seduced. Melina Marchetta flattery Imitation is flattery, and The Hills Have Eyes is a classic. Michael Berryman flattery classic eye There is not one of us that would not be worse than kings, if so continually corrupted as they are with a sort of vermin called flatterers. Michel de Montaigne vermin flattery kings I see this evident, that we willingly accord to piety only the services that flatter our passions. Michel de Montaigne accord flattery passion Imitation is the surest form of flattery and failure. I am not interested with your talk about my ideas. I am more interested in your applying them to your life. If you do not, then you are essentially not in accord with your own mind. Miyamoto Musashi flattery mind ideas Flattery leads to vulgarity; the flatterer is despised. Nachman of Breslov despised vulgarity flattery The most that can be said of flattery is that it is sometimes a cheap psychological trick with which charlatans and dishonest people lull others into a state of carelessness while they pick their pockets. Napoleon Hill flattery pockets people There is no other way to guard yourself against flattery than by making men understand that telling you the truth will not offend you. Niccolo Machiavelli flattery men way Flattery succeeds best on minds previously occupied by conceit. Norm MacDonald flattery succeed mind Were there no fools, there would be no flatterers. Norm MacDonald flattery fool would-be We would seldom be deceived by flattery, did our own conceit not promote the delusion. Norm MacDonald delusion flattery conceit Flattery is the infantry of negotiation. Oliver Lyttelton, 1st Viscount Chandos infantry flattery negotiation Of praise a mere glutton, he swallow'd what came, And the puff a dunce, he mistook it for fame; Till his relish grown callous, almost to displease, Who pepper'd the highest was surest to please. Oliver Goldsmith peppers puff flattery For praise too dearly lov'd, or warmly sought, Oliver Goldsmith flattery soul praise «23456789101112»
