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Quotes about flattery
Between flattery and admiration there often flows a river of contempt. (Antrim Minna)
Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt, not swallowed. (Antrim Minna)
A fool flatters himself, a wise man flatters the fool. (Antrim Minna)
Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver. (Antrim Minna)
Women who are either indisputably beautiful, or indisputably ugly, are best flattered upon the score of their understandings; but those who are in a state of mediocrity are best flattered upon their beauty, or at least their graces: for every woman who is not absolutely ugly, thinks herself handsome. (Antrim Minna)
We swallow with one gulp the lie that flatters us, and drink drop by drop the truth which is bitter to us. (Antrim Minna)
Look closely at those who patronize you. Half are unfeeling, half untaught. (Antrim Minna)
Just praise is only a debt, but flattery is a present. (Antrim Minna)
Nothing flatters a man as much as the happiness of his wife; he is always proud of himself as the source of it. (Antrim Minna)
Every flatterer lives at the expense of him who listens to him. (Antrim Minna)
Self-love is the greatest of all flatterers. (Antrim Minna)
He who says he hates every kind of flattery, and says it in earnest, certainly does not yet know every kind of flattery. (Antrim Minna)
The more we love our friends, the less we flatter them; it is by excusing nothing that pure love shows itself. (Antrim Minna)
Many lick before they bite. (Antrim Minna)
If we did not flatter ourselves the flattery from others would not harm us. (Antrim Minna)
He that flatters you more than you desire either has deceived you or wishes to deceive. (Antrim Minna)
Flattery makes friends and truth makes enemies. (Antrim Minna)
Flatter not thyself in thy faith in God if thou hast not charity for thy neighbor. (Antrim Minna)
But it is hard to know them from friends, they are so obsequious and full of protestations; for a wolf resembles a dog, so doth a flatterer a friend. (Antrim Minna)
To make a man perfectly happy tell him he works too hard, that he spends too much money, that he is misunderstood or that he is different; none of this is necessarily complimentary, but it will flatter him infinitely more that merely telling him that he is brilliant, or noble, or wise, or good. (Antrim Minna)
I will praise any man that will praise me. (Antrim Minna)
He that loves to be flattered is worthy of the flatterer. (Antrim Minna)
What really flatters a man is that you think him worth flattering. (Antrim Minna)
Baloney is flattery laid on so thick it cannot be true, and blarney is flattery so thin we love it. (Antrim Minna)
None are more taken in by flattery than the proud, who wish to be the first and are not. (Antrim Minna)
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