Flattery Quotes - Page 9

• When a woman has not received much flattery in her life, she will be seduced.

  Melina Marchetta

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• The man that lays his hand upon a woman, Save in the way of kindness, is a wretch Whom't were gross flattery to name a coward.

  John M. Tobin, Jr.

  Kindness, Women, Hands

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• In Hollywood, imitation is the most profitable form of flattery. That is the only plausible explanation.

  Desson Thomson

  Hollywood, Imitation, Form

  "'101 Dalmatians': A Little Spotty" by Desson Howe, www.washingtonpost.com. November 27, 1996.

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• We have lost the old love of work, of work which kept itself company, which was fair weather and music in the heart, which found its reward in the doing, craving neither the flattery of vulgar eyes nor the gold of vulgar men.

  John Lancaster Spalding

  Eye, Heart, Men

  John Lancaster Spalding (1901). “Aphorisms and Reflections: Conduct, Culture and Religion”

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• The encomium of one incapable of flattery is indeed flattering.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Flattering, Incapable

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1926). “The Complete Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley: Notes on Shelley's correspondents. Letters, 1803 to 1812”

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• Flattery does not encourage the perfect flow of love in the vein of your relationship. Be genuine and speak out what you feel for each other without hiding the painful truth.

  Michael Bassey

  Speaks Out, Perfect, Doe

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• We make ourselves fools to disport ourselves And spend our flatteries to drink those men Upon whose age we void it up again With poisonous spite and envy.

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Envy, Age

  William Shakespeare (1812). “The Works of William Shakespeare”, p.22

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• To thee, fair Freedom! I retire From flattery, cards, and dice, and din: Nor art thou found in mansions higher Than the low cot, or humble inn.

  William Shenstone

  Art, Humble, Cards

  William Shenstone, David Mallet (1822). “The Poems of William Shenstone ...”, p.154

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• Women have, in general, but ne object, which is their beauty; upon which, scarce any flattery is too gross for them to swallow.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Beauty, Gross, Objects

  Lord Chesterfield, David Roberts (2008). “Lord Chesterfield's Letters”, p.60, Oxford University Press

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• They say one of the greatest forms of flattery is for your son to follow in your footsteps. And so I enjoy that greatest form of flattery, without a doubt.

  Dennis Franchione

  Son, Doubt, Form

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• Vanity is truly the motive power that moves humanity, and it is flattery that greases the wheels.

  St. Jerome

  Moving, Vanity, Humanity

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• I look at my work and make up my mind about it. After that, neither flattery nor criticism matters to me.

  Georgia O'Keeffe

  Writing, Mind, Criticism

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• Astronomy was born of superstition; eloquence of ambition, hatred, falsehood, and flattery; geometry of avarice; physics of an idle curiosity; and even moral philosophy of human pride. Thus the arts and sciences owe their birth to our vices.

  Jean-Baptiste Rousseau

  Art, Philosophy, Ambition

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• It is happy for you that you possess the talent of flattering with delicacy. May I ask whether these pleasing attentions proceed from the impulse of the moment, or are they the result of previous study?

  Jane Austen

  Inspiring, Attention, Delicacy

  Jane Austen (2006). “8 Books in 1: Jane Austen's Complete Novels. Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Emma, Northanger Abbey, Persuasion, Lady Susan, and Love an”, p.157, Shoes & Ships & Sealing Wax

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• His (Deschamps') complaint of court life was the same as is made of government at the top in any age: it was composed of hypocrisy, flattery, lying, paying and betraying; it was where calumny and cupidity reigned, common sense lacked, truth dared not appear, and where to survive one had to be deaf, blind, and dumb.

  Barbara Tuchman

  Lying, Government, Common Sense

  Barbara Tuchman (2017). “A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century”, p.539, Penguin UK

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• Men sometimes think they hate flattery, but they hate only the manner of flattering.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Hate, Men, Thinking

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• Flattery's fire is hidden. Its sweet taste is apparent, but the smoke is bound to come out at last.

  Rumi

  Sweet, Fire, Feminism

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• Women who are either indisputably beautiful, or indisputably ugly, are best flattered upon the score of their understandings.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Beautiful, Women, Understanding

  Lord Chesterfield, David Roberts (2008). “Lord Chesterfield's Letters”, p.92, Oxford University Press

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• We love flattery, even though we are not deceived by it, because it shows that we are of importance enough to be courted.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Political, Enough, Importance

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Emerson's Essays: Top Essays”, p.96, 谷月社

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• Flattery has a short battery life, but reminding people they are amazing and precious and wanted and works of art can truly change their lives.

  Donald Miller

  Art, People, Batteries

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• I know imitation is the highest form of flattery, but stealing one's identity is totally different.

  AnnaLynne McCord

  Identity, Different, Stealing

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Nay, do not think I flatter. For what advancement may I hope from thee, That no revenue hast but thy good spirits To feed and clothe thee? Why should the poor be flattered?

  William Shakespeare

  Thinking, Advancement, May

  William Shakespeare (2011). “Hamlet”, p.139, Simon and Schuster

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• If he be so resolved, I can o'ersway him; for he loves to hear That unicorns may be betrayed with trees And bears with glasses, elephants with holes, Lions with toils, and men with flatterers

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Glasses, Elephants

  William Shakespeare (2016). “The New Oxford Shakespeare: Modern Critical Edition: The Complete Works”, p.1631, Oxford University Press

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• Few human beings are proof against the implied flattery of rapt attention.

  Jack Woodford

  Attention, Proof, Humans

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• To make a man perfectly happy tell him he works too hard, that he spends too much money, that he is "misunderstood" or that he is "different;" none of this is necessarily complimentary, but it will flatter him infinitely more than merely telling him that he is brilliant, or noble, or wise, or good.

  Helen Rowland

  Wise, Men, Misunderstood

  "We Should All Be So Feminine: We Should All Be a Feminist: We Should All Be Feminists".

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