Flattery Quotes - Page 7

• There is flattery in friendship.

  William Shakespeare

  Inspirational, Real, Real Friends

  William Shakespeare, George Somers Bellamy (1875). “The New Shaksperian Dictionary of Quotations: (With Marginal Classification and Reference.)”, p.64

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• Take no repulse, whatever she doth say; For 'get you gone,' she doth not mean 'away.' Flatter and praise, commend, extol their graces; Though ne'er so black, say they have angels' faces

  William Shakespeare

  Mean, Angel, Grace

  William Shakespeare (2007). “The Complete Works of William Shakespeare”, p.200, Wordsworth Editions

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• He does me double wrong
  That wounds me with the flatteries of his tongue.

  William Shakespeare

  Doe, Tongue, Wounds

  William Shakespeare, Charles R. Forker (2002). “King Richard II: Third Series”, p.335, Cengage Learning EMEA

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• Republics are created by the virtue, public spirit, and intelligence of the citizens. They fall, when the wise are banished from the public councils, because they dare to be honest, and the profligate are rewarded, because they flatter the people, in order to betray them.

  Joseph Story

  Wise, Fall, Order

  Joseph Story (1834). “The Constitutional Class Book: Being a Brief Exposition of the Constitution of the United States: Designed for the Use of the Higher Classes in Common Schools”, p.154

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• Baloney is flattery laid on so thick it cannot be true, and blarney is flattery so thin we love it.

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Love, Funny, Humor

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

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• The rich man despises those who flatter him too much, and hates those who do not flatter him at all.

  Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

  Hate, Men, Too Much

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• It is easy to flatter; it is harder to praise.

  Jean Paul

  Praise, Easy, Harder

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• Knavery and flattery are blood relations.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Humor, Blood, Knavery

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• Sometimes, idealistic people are put off the whole business of networking as something tainted by flattery and the pursuit of selfish advantage. But virtue in obscurity is rewarded only in Heaven. To succeed in this world you have to be known to people.

  Sonia Sotomayor

  Selfish, People, Heaven

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• There is nothing which so poisons princes as flattery, nor anything whereby wicked men more easily obtain credit and favor with them.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Men, Wicked, Poison

  Michel de Montaigne (2013). “Michel de Montaigne: Selected Essays”, p.106, Courier Corporation

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  Nothing in this world is harder than speaking the truth, nothing easier than flattery.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Truth, Honesty, Punishment

  "Crime and Punishment". Book by Fyodor Dostoevsky (Part VI, Chapter 4, p. 471), 1866.

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

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Harm, Ifs

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• I am an actor and of course I respond very positively to flattery.

  Julia Roberts

  Actors, Very Positive, Courses

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.co.uk

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• A flatterer is the shadow of a fool.

  Thomas Overbury

  Shadow, Fool, Flatterer

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• I have a car that I call Flattery because it gets me nowhere.

  Henny Youngman

  Car

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• Flattery is so necessary to us that we flatter one another just to be flattered in return.

  Marjorie Bowen

  Return, Flattered

  Marjorie Bowen (1938). “World's Wonder and Other Essays”

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• Probably one of the reasons why gushing is so unattractive is that it leaves nothing for the listener to do.

  Margery Wilson

  Unattractive, Reason Why, Conversation

  Margery Wilson (1928). “Charm”

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• No man of high and generous spirit is ever willing to indulge in flattery; the good may feel affection for others, but will not flatter them.

  Aristotle

  Men, Generous Spirit, Indulge In

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• Flattery makes fools of the best of us.

  Dorothy Salisbury Davis

  Fool

  Dorothy Salisbury Davis (2014). “A Death in The Life”, p.280, Open Road Media

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• Flattery is counterfeit, and like counterfeit money, it will eventually get you into trouble if you pass it to someone else.

  Dale Carnegie

  Trouble, Counterfeit Money, Ifs

  Dale Carnegie (2010). “How To Enjoy Your Life And Your Job”, p.93, Simon and Schuster

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• A man finds no sweeter voice in all the world than that which chants his praise.

  Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle

  Men, Voice, World

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• Flattery leads to vulgarity; the flatterer is despised.

  Nachman of Breslov

  Vulgarity, Despised, Flatterer

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• I cannot think of any character below the flatterer, except he who envies him

  Richard Steele

  Character, Thinking, Envy

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• Your flattery is as full of contempt as your insults were.

  Mason Cooley

  Insult, Contempt

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• Let flattery, the handmaid of the vices, be far removed .

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Vices, Handmaids

  De Amicitia, XXIV,

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