Flattery Quotes - Page 19

• I'm not a nostalgic person for the glory days of 8-track sales at the local K-Mart. But there's a little bit of flattery and a little bit of horror. It's a mixture. It's like sublime shock and awe, but also terror. That's always the way I feel about how music flows through those types of networks. I'm mostly cool with it, but I definitely appreciate when people support the work.

  Tim Hecker

  People, Track, Appreciate

  Source: thequietus.com

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• No matter what other nations may say about the United States, immigration is still the sincerest form of flattery.

  Clayton Cramer

  Matter, Immigration, United States

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• Flattery is the infantry of negotiation.

  Oliver Lyttelton, 1st Viscount Chandos

  Infantry, Negotiation

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• 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, Praise

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• 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

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• Anytime anybody asks you to do anything that is celebrating you or highlighting your life, just the fact that they cared enough about me, who am I to say no? It's a form of flattery to me and I take those things seriously, because in the long run, people don't have to care about you.

  Vanessa Bell Calloway

  Running, Long, People

  Source: www.ebony.com

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• Fearing no insult, asking for no crown, receive with indifference both flattery and slander, and do not argue with a fool.

  Alexander Pushkin

  Asking, Crowns, Fool

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• He who says he hates all kinds of flattery, and says so in earnest, has undoubtedly not as yet become acquainted with all kinds of it, whether in substance or in form.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Hate, Substance, Kind

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• Ho, Ho, Sir Surgeon. You are too delicate to tell the man that he is ill. You hope to heal the sick without their knowing it. You therefore flatter them. And what happens? They laugh at you. They dance upon their own graves and at last they die. Your delicacy is cruelty, your flatteries are poisons you are a murderer. Shall we keep men in a fool's paradise? Shall we lull them into soft slumber from which they will awake in hell? Are we to become helpers of their damnation by our smooth speeches? In the name of God we will not.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Men, Names, Knowing

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• 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

  Men, Way

  Niccolo Machiavelli (1979). “The Portable Machiavelli”, p.110, Penguin

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• I believe that love--not imitation--is the sincerest form of flattery. Your imitator thinks that you can be duplicated; your lover knows you can't.

  Marilyn vos Savant

  Believe, Thinking, Lovers

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• Like pollen on a honeybee, flattery clings to the things you tell yourself.

  Willis Regier

  Pollen

  Willis Goth Regier (2007). “In Praise of Flattery”, p.19, U of Nebraska Press

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• Flattery works like a drug.

  Willis Regier

  Drug

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• A world without any lies at all is not a good world, because it's artless and because there are no white lies, no flattery.

  Ricky Gervais

  Lying, White, World

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• Whenever you commend, add your reasons for doing so; it is this which distinguishes the approbation of a man of sense from the flattery of sycophants and admiration of fools.

  Richard Steele

  Men, Fool, Sycophants

  Richard Steele, Joseph Addison (1794). “The Guardian”, p.99

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• Say not unto thyself, Behold, truth breedeth hatred, and I will avoid it; dissimulation raiseth friends, and I will follow it. Are not the enemies made by truth, better than the friends obtained by flattery?

  Akhenaton

  Friendship, Truth, Hatred

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• The praise of an ignorant man is only good-will, and you should receive his kindness as he is a good neighbor in society, and not as a good judge of your actions in point of fame and reputation.

  Richard Steele

  Kindness, Men, Judging

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1860). “The Spectator: A New Edition”, p.244

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• Never permit yourself to indulge in cheap flattery, which often times means to merely satisfy the individuals vanity and sometimes to ingratiate the flatter into the good graces of the flattered.

  Harold B. Lee

  Kindness, Mean, Indulge In

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• Money is the sincerest of all flattery. Women love to be flattered. So do men.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Men, Flattered

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Time Enough for Love”, p.236, Penguin

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• Let's cease thinking of our accomplishments, our wants. Let's try to figure out the other man's good points. Then forget flattery. Give honest, sincere appreciation. Be hearty in your approbation and lavish in your praise, and people will cherish your words and treasure them and repeat them over a lifetime - repeat them years after you have forgotten them.

  Dale Carnegie

  Inspirational, Motivational, Appreciation

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• Flee flattery, false praise and fair weather friends

  Fraser Young

  Weather, Praise, Fairs

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• 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

  Ideas, Mind, Imitation

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• Flattery looks like friendship, just like a wolf looks like a dog. Food for thought is no substitute for the real thing.

  Walt Kelly

  Dog, Real, Looks

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• History does seem to repeat itself hence it's mindboggling to still hear the 'avoid all negative people' speeches from, of all people, supposedly important spiritual teachers. Ironically, their congregations would probably be the ones hiding their faces from the accuracies of truth speakers like Christ. Now, Christ was the complete opposite of negative, however the danger is that truth is often misunderstood as negativity by those who are constantly taught to only seek flattery.

  Criss Jami

  Spiritual, Teacher, Opposites

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.47, Criss Jami

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• To a degree which is difficult to determine, the esoteric impulse in twentieth-century music, literature and the arts reflects calculation. It looks to the flattery of academic and hermeneutic notice. Reciprocally, the academy turns towards that which appears to require its exegetic, cryptographic skills.

  George Steiner

  Art, Skills, Degrees

  George Steiner (2010). “Real Presences: Is There Anything in What We Say?”, p.43, Faber & Faber

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