Flattery Quotes - Page 6

• He who knows how to flatter also knows how to slander.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Power, Hypocrisy, Politics

  Napoleon Bonaparte “Napoleon in his own words from the French of Jules Bertaut”, Рипол Классик

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• Look closely at those who patronize you. Half are unfeeling, half untaught.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Looks, Half, Unfeeling

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• In order that all men may be taught to speak truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it; for no species of falsehood is more frequent than flattery, to which the coward is betrayed by fear, the dependent by interest, and the friend by tenderness: those who are neither servile nor timorous are yet desirous to bestow pleasure; and, while unjust demands of praise continue to be made, there will always be some whom hope, fear, or kindness will dispose to pay them.

  Samuel Johnson

  Kindness, Men, Order

  Samuel Johnson (1797). “The Beauties of Samuel Johnson, Etc. (A New Edition, Being the Ninth.).”, p.101

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• Should the poor be flattered? No; let the candied tongue lick absurd pomp, and crook the pregnant hinges of the knee where thrift may follow fawning.

  William Shakespeare

  Crooks, May, Knees

  William Shakespeare (1833). “The plays and poems of William Shakspeare”, p.846

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• Implementation is the sincerest form of flattery.

  L Peter Deutsch

  Form, Implementation

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• What signifies protesting so against flattery when a person speaks well of one, it must either be true or false, you know if true, let us rejoice in his good opinion if he lies, it is a proof at least that he loves more to please me, than to sit s

  Samuel Johnson

  Lying, Please Me, True Or False

  Samuel Johnson (1836). “Johnsoniana: Or, Supplement to Boswell: Being Anecdotes and Sayings of Dr. Johnson”, p.58

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• Let those flatter who fear; it is not an American art .

  Thomas Jefferson

  Art

  Thomas Jefferson (1829). “Memoirs, correspondence and private papers of Thomas Jefferson, ed. by T.J. Randolph”, p.118

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• Nature has hardly formed a woman ugly enough to be insensible to flattery upon her person; if her face is so shocking that she must in some degree be conscious of it, her figure and her air, she trusts, make ample amends for it.

  Bill Vaughan

  Air, Degrees, Ugly

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• The voice of flattery affects us after it has ceased, just as after a concert men find some agreeable air ringing in their ears to the exclusion of all serious business.

  Seneca the Younger

  Men, Air, Voice

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• Blinded as they are to their true character by self-love, every man is his own first and chiefest flatterer, prepared, therefore, to welcome the flatterer from the outside, who only comes confirming the verdict of the flatterer within.

  Plutarch

  Character, Men, Self

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• What really flatters a man is that you think him worth flattering.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Inspiration, Men, Thinking

  John Bull's Other Island (1907) act 4

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

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Money, Vanity, Giving

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• I can spot empty flattery and know exactly where I stand. In the end it's really only my own approval or disapproval that means anything.

  Agnetha Faltskog

  Mean, Appreciate, Approval

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

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• Flattery is a lie covered in a bed of flowery words.

  Deborah Smith

  Lying, Bed, Covered

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• Imitation is the highest form of flattery, but clones kind of get it wrong because we are promoting individuality and being proud of being yourself.

  Brian Molko

  Being Yourself, Individuality, Proud

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• Imitation is flattery, and The Hills Have Eyes is a classic.

  Michael Berryman

  Eye, Classic, Hills

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• A woman's flattery may inflate a man's head a little; but her criticism goes straight to his heart, and contracts it so that it can never again hold quite as much love for her.

  Helen Rowland

  Relationship, Heart, Men

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• We should keep silent about those in power; to speak well of them almost implies flattery; to speak ill of them while they are alive is dangerous, and when they are dead is cowardly.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Power, Alive, Speak

  "Of Great Nobles". "Characters", Book by Jean De La Bruyère, www.ourcivilisation.com. 1688.

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• Flatter not thyself in thy faith in God if thou hast not charity for thy neighbor.

  Francis Quarles

  Love, Charity, Faith In God

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• 'T is an old maxim in the schools, That flattery 's the food of fools; Yet now and then your men of wit Will condescend to take a bit.

  Jonathan Swift

  School, Men, Cooking

  Jonathan Swift, Thomas Sheridan, John Nichols (1801). “The Works of the Rev. Jonathan Swift, D.D., Dean of St. Patrick's, Dublin”, p.121

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• I trust it will not be giving away professional secrets to say that many readers would be surprised, perhaps shocked, at the questions which some newspaper editors will put to a defenseless woman under the guise of flattery.

  Kate Chopin

  Editors, Giving, Secret

  1899 'On Certain Brisk Days', in the St Louis Post -Dispatch, 26 Nov.

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• Sheer flattery got me into the theater. Flattery always works with me, particularly the flattery of women.

  Carroll O'Connor

  Theater, Sheer

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• Don't flatter the rich, or appear to willing before the great.

  Thomas a Kempis

  Rich, Willing

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

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Mind, Gallantry, Flattering

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

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• It is possible to be below flattery as well as above it.

  Charles R. Forbes

  Wells

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