Joseph Addison Quotes About Flattery

Quotes about: Flattery

• It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are the more gentle and quiet we become towards the defects of others.

  Joseph Addison

  Inspiring, Perfect, Excellence

• 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

  Men, Hands, Flattery

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1852). “The Spectator”, p.118

• The most skillful flattery is to let a person talk on, and be a listener.

  Joseph Addison

  Flattery, Persons, Skillful

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