Flattery Quotes - Page 11

• Flatter me, but delicately, please, for I am fastidious.

  Mason Cooley

  Please, Fastidious

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• A man who does not love praise is not a full man.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Men, Doe, Praise

  "Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit".

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• We would seldom be deceived by flattery, did our own conceit not promote the delusion.

  Norm MacDonald

  Conceit, Delusion, Deceived

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• It is the folly of weak-minded people, to imagine they are what flattery or conceit represents them; and that it is useless for them to be what they are not, since they seem already to have acquired the reputation of it.

  Norm MacDonald

  People, Useless, Reputation

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• The heart of a woman is never so full of affection that there does not remain a little corner for flattery and love.

  Pierre de Marivaux

  Heart, And Love, Doe

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• Abject flattery and indiscriminate assentation degrade, as much as indiscriminate contradiction and noisy debate disgust. But a modest assertion of one's own opinion, and a complaisant acquiescence in other people's, preserve dignity.

  Doug Stanhope

  People, Acquiescence, Dignity

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• I recommend to you, in my last, an innocent piece of art: that of flattering people behind their backs, in presence of those who, to make their own court, much more than for your sake, will not fail to repeat, and even amplify, the praise to the party concerned. This is of all flattery the most pleasing, and consequently the most effectual.

  Doug Stanhope

  Art, People, Pieces

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• Flattery, if judiciously administered, is always acceptable.

  Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington

  Please, Acceptable, Ifs

  Marguerite Countess of Blessington, Marguerite GARDINER (Countess of Blessington.) (1839). “Desultory Thoughts and Reflections”, p.95

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• There's a certain balance between finding an opportunity to do what you really enjoy and getting caught up in the flattery of people wanting you to do things.

  Jim Gaffigan

  Opportunity, People, Balance

  Interview with Noel Murray, www.avclub.com. February 28, 2006.

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• The people at the very top could fall by and grace you with their presence and give you a little largesse, and you'd be "Oh, I'm so beloved." In a way, it was kind of like flattery. The middle managers didn't quite have that cachet, but at the same time, they had to seem like they were of that caliber. So there's a little bit of loneliness at the heart of those with a little bit of power.

  Joshua Ferris

  Loneliness, Fall, Heart

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I am not one of those who left the land to the mercy of its enemies. Their flattery leaves me cold, my songs are not for them to praise.

  Anna Akhmatova

  Song, Land, Enemy

  Anna Andreevna Akhmatova, Stanley Kunitz, Max Hayward (1997). “Избранные Стихи”, p.75, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The reason that adulation is not displeasing is that, though untrue, it shows one to be of consequence enough, in one way or other, to induce people to lie.

  Lord Byron

  Lying, People, Way

  Lord Byron (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)”, p.2986, Delphi Classics

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• The god-who-serves-ME requires flattery, not worship.

  Tom Wells

  Worship

  Tom Wells (1985). “A vision for missions”, Banner of Truth

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• Flattery won't hurt you if you don't swallow it.

  Kin Hubbard

  Hurt, Ifs

  Kin Hubbard, David S. Hawes (1995). “The Best of Kin Hubbard: Abe Martin's Sayings and Wisecracks, Abe's Neighbors, His Almanack, Comic Drawings”, p.28, Indiana University Press

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• Persons who discover a flatterer, do not always disapprove him, because he imagines them considerable enough to deserve his applications.

  William Shenstone

  Imagine, Enough, Application

  William Shenstone (1804). “Essays on Men and Manners”, p.142

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• The most that can be said of flattery is that it is sometimes a cheap psychological trick with which charlatans and dishonest people lull others into a state of carelessness while they pick their pockets.

  Napoleon Hill

  People, Pockets, Sometimes

  Napoleon Hill (2009). “How To Sell Your Way Through Life”, p.20, John Wiley and Sons

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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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• I see this evident, that we willingly accord to piety only the services that flatter our passions.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Passion, Accord, Piety

  Michel de Montaigne (1958). “Complete Essays”, p.323, Stanford University Press

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• Women are hard and proud and stubborn-hearted,
  Their heads being turned with praise and flattery;
  And that is why their lovers are afraid
  To tell them a plain story.

  William Butler Yeats

  Women, Stories, Stubborn

  William Butler Yeats (2010). “The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats Vol II: The Plays”, p.270, Simon and Schuster

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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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• 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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• I get out my work and have a show for myself before I have it publicly. I make up my own mind about it-how good or bad or indifferent it is. After that, the critics can write what they please. I have already settled it for myself so flattery and criticism go down the same drain and I am quite free.

  Georgia O'Keeffe

  Writing, Mind, Criticism

  Georgia O'Keeffe (1977). “Georgia O'Keeffe”, Viking Pr

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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 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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• Sometimes we think we dislike flattery, but it is only the way it is done that we dislike.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Thinking, Done, Way

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