Flattery Quotes - Page 12

• The world is grown so full of dissimulation and compliment, that men's words are hardly any signification of their thoughts.

  Richard Steele

  Men, World, Compliment

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1853). “The Spectator”, p.62

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• Imitation is not just the sincerest form of flattery - it's the sincerest form of learning.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Learning, Imitation, Form

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• When one looks truly at the good side of everyone, others come to love him very naturally, and he does not need even a speck of flattery.

  Abraham Isaac Kook

  Doe, Needs, Looks

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• Morris read through the letter. Was it a shade too fulsome? No, that was another law of academic life: it is impossible to be excessive in flattery of one's peers.

  David Lodge

  Academic Life, Law, Peers

  1984 Small World, pt.3, ch.1.

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• I have already settled it for myself so flattery and criticism go down the same drain and I am quite free.

  Georgia O'Keeffe

  Criticism, Drains, Critics

  Dennis Abrams, Georgia O'Keeffe (2009). “Georgia O'Keeffe”, p.70, Infobase Publishing

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• Imitation isn't the sincerest form of flattery - it's plagiarism.

  Red Skelton

  Imitation, Plagiarism, Form

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• The simulated approval and affection with which parents and teachers are often urged to solve behavior problems are counterfeit. So are flattery, backslap-ping, and many other ways of "winning friends.

  B. F. Skinner

  Teacher, Winning, Parent

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• O Beauty, find thyself in love, not in the flattery of thy mirror.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Beauty, Mirrors, Thyself

  Rabindranath Tagore, Mohit Kumar Ray (2007). “Poems”, p.400, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

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• The girl was grateful to the young man for every bit of flattery; she wanted to linger for a moment in its warmth and so she said, 'You're very good at lying.' 'Do I look like a liar?' 'You look like you enjoy lying to women,' said the girl, and into her words there crept unawares a touch of the old anxiety, because she really did believe that her young man enjoyed lying to women.

  Milan Kundera

  Girl, Liars, Lying

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• Love of another is merely empty flattery and self-deception for one who cannot accept himself without pretense.

  L.E. Modesitt Jr.

  Self, Deception, Empty

  L. E. Modesitt, Jr. (2010). “The Magic of Recluce”, p.378, Macmillan

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• But here's the joy: my friend and I are one, Sweet flattery!

  William Shakespeare

  Sweet, Joy, Excitement

  William Shakespeare (1864). “The Works of William Shakespeare”, p.1036

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• Of course you like him; everyone enjoys flattery.

  Christopher Paolini

  Enjoy, Courses

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• A fool can no more see his own folly than he can see his ears.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Ears, Fool, Folly

  William Makepeace Thackeray (1870). “Miscellanies: Prose and Verse”, p.87

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• The world's flattery and hypocrisy is a sweet morsel: eat less of it, for it is full of fire. Its fire is hidden while its taste is manifest, but its smoke becomes visible in the end.

  Rumi

  Sweet, Fire, Hypocrisy

  Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī (Maulana), Jelaluddin Rumi, Kabir Helminski, Andrew Harvey (2005). “The Rumi Collection: An Anthology of Translations of Mevlâna Jalâluddin Rumi”, p.23, Shambhala Publications

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• In the best, the friendliest and simplest relations flattery or praise is necessary, just as grease is necessary to keep wheels turning.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Grease, Wheels, Praise

  Leo Tolstoy (2011). “War and Peace: Translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky”, p.29, Vintage

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• There is nothing in the world more difficult than candor, and nothing easier than flattery. If there is a hundredth of a fraction of a false note to candor, it immediately produces dissonance, and as a result, exposure. But in flattery, even if everything is false down to the last note, it is still pleasant, and people will listen not without pleasure; with coarse pleasure, perhaps, but pleasure nevertheless.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  People, World, Lasts

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

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• In my experience, there are two things that no one will admit to: having no sense of humor and being susceptible to flattery.

  Margaret George

  Two, Sense Of Humor, Susceptible

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• ... believing in a God whom we cannot but regard as evil, and then, in mere terrified flattery calling Him 'good' and worshipping him is a still greater danger... The ultimate question is whether the doctrine of the goodness of God or that of the inerrancy of scripture is to prevail when they conflict. I think the doctrine of the goodness of God is the more certain of the two. Indeed, only that doctrine renders this worship of Him obligatory or even permissable.

  C. S. Lewis

  Believe, Thinking, Two

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• It has well been said that the arch-flatterer, with whom all petty flatterers have intelligence, is a man's self.

  Francis Bacon

  Men, Self, Arches

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• Popular culture is a place where pity is called compassion, flattery is called love, propaganda is called knowledge, tension is called peace, gossip is called news, and auto-tune is called singing.

  Criss Jami

  Compassion, Auto Tune, Gossip

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.80, Criss Jami

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• As kings are begotten and born like other men, it is to be presumed that they are of the human species; and perhaps, had they thesame education, they might prove like other men. But, flattered from their cradles, their hearts are corrupted, and their heads are turned, so that they seem to be a species by themselves.... Flattery cannot be too strong for them; drunk with it from their infancy, like old drinkers, they require dreams.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Dream, Strong, Kings

  Lord Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield (1855). “The Works of Lord Chesterfield: Including His Letters to His Son, Etc : to which is Prefixed, an Original Life of the Author”, p.621

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• Near this spot are deposited the remains of one who possessed beauty without vanity, strength without insolence, courage without ferocity, and all the virtues of man, without his vices. This praise, which would be unmeaning flattery if inscribed over human ashes, is but a just tribute to the memory of Botswain, a dog.

  Lord Byron

  Dog, Memories, Men

  George Gordon Byron, “Epitaph To A Dog”

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• LA runs on optimism, enthusiasm and flattery. I think you can go a little bit crazy... It's just too damn sunny in every dimension - weatherwise, socially and professionally.

  Hugh Laurie

  Running, Crazy, Thinking

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

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• The most dangerous of all flattery is the inferiority of those about us.

  Sophie Swetchine

  Inferiority, Dangerous

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• Attention is a silent and perpetual flattery.

  Sophie Swetchine

  Attention, Silent, Perpetual

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