Francois de La Rochefoucauld Quotes About Flattery

Quotes about: Flattery

• If we did not flatter ourselves, the flattery of others could never harm us.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Flattery, Harm, Ifs

• Flattery is false money, which would not be current were it not for our vanity.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Vanity, Flattery, Currents

• Flattery is a base coin which is current only through our vanity.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Vanity, Coins, Flattery

• Gallantry of mind consists in saying flattering things in an agreeable manner.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Mind, Flattery, Gallantry

  "Maxim", 103 in "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, (pp. 276-277), 1922.

• Flattery is a counterfeit money which, but for vanity, would have no circulation.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Money, Vanity, Criticism

• Self-love is the greatest of all flatterers.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Love, Self, Anorexia

  "The Moral Maxims and Reflections". Book by François de La Rochefoucauld. Maxim 2, 1678.

• We sometimes imagine we hate flattery, but we only hate the way we are flattered.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Hate, Way, Flattery

• Flattery is a kind of bad money, to which our vanity gives us currency.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Money, Vanity, Giving

• Sometimes we think we dislike flattery, but it is only the way it is done that we dislike.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Thinking, Done, Way

• Praise is flattery, artful, hidden, delicate, which gratifies differently him who praises and him who is praised. The one takes it as the reward of merit, the other bestows it to show his impartiality and knowledge.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Rewards, Merit, Flattery

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

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Hate, Men, Thinking

• We sometimes think that we hate flattery, but we only hate the manner in which it is done.
  [Fr., On croit quelquefoir hair la flatterie; maid on ne hait que a maniere de flatter.]

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Hate, Thinking, Hair

• The gallantry of the mind consists in agreeable flattery.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Mind, Flattery, Gallantry

• If we never flattered ourselves we should have but scant pleasure.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Should Have, Flattery, Pleasure

• We are not fond of praising, and never praise any one except from interested motives. Praise is a clever, concealed, and delicate flattery, which gratifies in different ways the giver and the receiver. The one takes it as a recompense of his merit, and the other bestows it to display his equity and discernment.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Clever, Different, Way

• Praise is a more ingenious, concealed, and subtle kind of flattery, that satisfies both the giver and the receiver, though by verydifferent ways. The one accepts it as a reward due to his merit; the other gives it that he may be looked upon as a just and discerning person.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Giving, May, Rewards

• facebook
• twitter
• googleplus
• email
• linkedin

• facebook
• twitter
• googleplus
• email
• linkedin