“ Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt of, not swallowed. ”
- Josh Billings- Copy
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“ I hate careless flattery, the kind that exhausts you in your effort to believe it. ”
- Wilson Mizner- Copy
- 1.1K
“ None are more taken in by flattery than the proud, who wish to be the first and are not. ”
- Baruch Benedict de Spinoza- Copy
- 1.6K
“ O, that men's ears should be To counsel deaf, but not to flattery! ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
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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 John Sheen- Copy
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“ He who says he hates every kind of flattery, and says it in earnest, certainly does not yet know every kind of flattery. ”
- Georg C. Lichtenberg- Copy
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“ Listening, not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery. ”
- Dr. Joyce Brothers- Copy
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“ To ask advice is in nine cases out of ten to tout for flattery. ”
- John Churton Collins- Copy
- 3.8K
“ Baloney is the unvarnished lie laid on so thick you hate it. Blarney is flattery laid on so thin you love it. ”
- Fulton Sheen- Copy
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“ Between flattery and admiration there often flows a river of contempt. ”
- Minna Thomas Antrim- Copy
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“ Everyone likes flattery; and when you come to Royalty you should lay it on with a trowel. ”
- Benjamin Disraeli- Copy
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“ The ambitious are forever followed by adulation for they receive the most pleasure from flattery. ”
- Oliver Goldsmith- Copy
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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- Copy
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“ Flattery is telling the other person precisely what he thinks about himself. ”
- Dale Carnegie- Copy
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“ Of praise a mere glutton, he swallow'd what came, And the puff a dunce, he mistook it for fame; Till his relish grown callous, almost to displease, Who pepper'd the highest was surest to please. ”
- Oliver Goldsmith- Copy
- 1.8K
“ No adulation; 'tis the death of virtue; Who flatters, is of all mankind the lowest Save he who courts the flattery. ”
- Hannah More- Copy
- 2.1K
“ It is easier and handier for men to flatter than to praise. ”
- Jean Paul Richter- Copy
- 2.5K
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