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 | "Flattery is all right ? if you don"t inhale." | |
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Adlai Ewing Stevenson
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| "Flattery is counterfeit money which, but for vanity, would have no
circulation." | |
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François, Duc de La Rochefoucauld
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| "Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt of, not
swallowed." | |
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Josh Billings
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| "Get someone else to blow your horn and the sound will carry twice as
far." | |
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Will Rogers
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| "He who would do good to another must do it in Minute Particulars.
General Good is the plea of the scoundrel, hypocrite, and flatterer; For
Art and Science cannot exist but in minutely organized particles." | |
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William Blake
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| "It is better to fall among crows than flatterers; for those devour
only the dead ? these the living." | |
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Antisthenes
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| "It is possible to be below flattery as well as above it." | |
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Lord Thomas Babington Macaulay
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| "Listening, not imitation, may be the sincerest form of
flattery." | |
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Dr. Joyce Brothers
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| "Madam, before you flatter a man so grossly to his face, you should
consider whether or not your flattery is worth his having." | |
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Dr. Samuel Johnson
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| "My passport photo is one of the most remarkable photographs I have
ever seen --- no retouching, no shadows, no flattery --- just stark
me." | |
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Anne Morrow Lindbergh
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| "Never, never, never, never give up." | |
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Sir Winston Churchill
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| "Nothing is so great an instance of ill-manners as flattery. If you
flatter all the company, you please none; if you flatter only one or two,
you affront the rest." | |
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Jonathan Swift
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| "There is no other way of guarding oneself against flattery than by
letting men understand that they will not offend you by speaking the
truth; but when everyone can tell you the truth, you lose their
respect." | |
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Niccoló Machiavelli
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| "We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little
by little at a truth we find bitter." | |
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Denis Diderot
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