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IMITATION
I s THE
SINCEREST
FORM OF
FLATTERY
so don't be cross, it's a compliment!
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FLATTERY
WILL GETYOU
NOWHERE.
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Imitation is the
sincerest form of
flattery that
mediocrity can pay to
greatness.
Oscar Wüde
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What good does it bring
to have a thousand friend
who flatters you with false words?
Ild rather have a single enemy
who criticize me with the truth!
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FLATTERY AND
INSULTS RAISE THE
SAME QUESTION:
WHAT DO YOU WANT?
Mason Cooley
American aphorist
(1927-2002)
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Sheer flattery got me
into the theater.
Flattery always works
with me, particularly
the flattery of women.
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MANY KNOW HOW
TO FLATTER, FEW
KNOW How TO
PRAISE.
Wendell Phillips
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MANY KNOW HOW
TO FLATTER, FEW
KNOW How TO
PRAISE.
Wendell Phillips
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THINKING ABOUT WHAT
MATTERS: FLATTERY
Too often we underestimate the power of
a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an
honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all
of which have the potential to turn a life around.
Leo Buscaglia
If we did not flatter ourselves, the flattery of others
could never harm us.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
When I compliment you, I compliment myself,
because I am who I associate with.
Jared Kintz
In the best, the friendliest and simplest relations
flattery or praise is necessary, just as grease is
necessary to keep wheels turning.
Leo Tolstoy
But I'd rather look like you than be pretty," she told
Anne sincerely. Anne laughed, sipped honey from
the tribute, and cast away the sting.
L.M. Montgomery
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SINCEREST
FORM OF
FLATTERY
so don't be cross, it's a compliment!
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"BEMEEN ADMIRAiiON
OFTEN FLOWS A RIVER OF CONTEMPT!'
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HE WHO KNOWS HOW
TO FLATTER ALSO
KNOWS HOW TO
SLANDER.
Napoleon Bonaparte
French military and
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FLATTERY
LOOKS LIKE
FRIENDSHIP,
JUST LIKE A
WOLF LOOKS
LIKE A DOG,
- ANONYMOUS
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FLATTERY IS LIKE
COLOGNE
WATER, TO BE
SMELT, NOT
SWALLOWED.
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Josh Billings
American Humorist
1818-1885
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FLATTERY IS A KIND
OF BAD MONEY, TO
WHICH OUR VANITY
GIVES US CURRENCY.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
French Author
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1613 • 1680
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Flattery is all right so long as you don't inhale. Votes: 6

Adlai E. Stevenson

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Flattery is like chewing gum. Enjoy it but don't swallow it. Votes: 6

Hank Ketcham

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Flattery is telling the other person precisely what he thinks about himself. Votes: 5

Dale Carnegie

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Flattery is a kind of bad money, to which our vanity gives us currency. Votes: 5

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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Immigration is the sincerest form of flattery. Votes: 4

Jack Paar

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Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver. Votes: 4

Edmund Burke

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Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt, not swallowed. Votes: 4

Josh Billings

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Flattery and insults raise the same question: What do you want? Votes: 4

Mason Cooley

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Everyone likes flattery; and when you come to Royalty you should lay it on with a trowel. Votes: 4

Benjamin Disraeli

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Baloney is flattery laid on so thick it cannot be true, and blarney is flattery so thin we love it. Votes: 4

Fulton J. Sheen

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I can spot empty flattery and know exactly where I stand. In the end it's really only my own approval or disapproval that means anything. Votes: 4

Agnetha Faltskog

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Flattery in courtship is the highest insolence, for whilst it pretends to bestow on you more than you deserve, it is watching an opportunity to take from you what you really have. Votes: 4

Sarah Fielding

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A woman's flattery may inflate a man's head a little; but her criticism goes straight to his heart, and contracts it so that it can never again hold quite as much love for her. Votes: 4

Helen Rowland

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Flattery and deceit are the darlings of great men, and so with these men spread the butter on thick, if you want to get something out of them, otherwise you'll come home to me with a full belly and an empty purse. Votes: 4

Pietro Aretino

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Flattery'll get you anywhere. Votes: 3

Charles Lederer

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Flattery works like a drug. Votes: 3

Willis Regier

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Flattery will get you nowhere Votes: 3

Proverb

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Flattery will get you everywhere. Votes: 3

Mae West

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Flattery is praise without foundation. Votes: 3

Eliza Leslie

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Flattery is the infantry of negotiation. Votes: 3

Oliver Lyttelton, 1st Viscount Chandos

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Flattery, the dangerous nurse of vice. Votes: 3

Samuel Daniel

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Flattery, if judiciously administered, is always acceptable. Votes: 3

Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington

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Flattery is useful when dealing with youngsters. Votes: 3

Isaac Asimov

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Flattery is all right if you don't inhale Votes: 3

Adlai E. Stevenson

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Flattery labors under the odious charge of servility. Votes: 3

Tacitus

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Flattery leads to vulgarity; the flatterer is despised. Votes: 3

Nachman of Breslov

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Flattery makes fools of the best of us. Votes: 3

Dorothy Salisbury Davis

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Flattery won't hurt you if you don't swallow it. Votes: 3

Kin Hubbard

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Flattery is like a painted armor; only for show. Votes: 3

Socrates

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Flattery is a juggler, and no kin unto sincerity. Votes: 3

Thomas Browne

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Flattery has to overcome my mistrust, and it does. Votes: 3

Mason Cooley

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Flattery succeeds best on minds previously occupied by conceit. Votes: 3

Norm MacDonald

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Flattery is praise insincerely given for an interested purpose. Votes: 3

Henry Ward Beecher

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Flattery must be pretty thick before anybody objects to it.... Votes: 3

William Feather

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Flattery.... gets its kicks by flirting with insult and ridicule. Votes: 3

Willis Regier

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Flattery is like friendship in show, but not in fruit. Votes: 3

Socrates

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Flattery was formerly a vice; it has now become the fashion. Votes: 3

Publilius Syrus

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Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt of, not swallowed. Votes: 3

Josh Billings

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Flattery is the worst and falsest way of showing our esteem. Votes: 3

Jonathan Swift

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Flattery is a lie covered in a bed of flowery words. Votes: 3

Deborah Smith

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Flattery will get you everywhere," Sam says, "Except, apparently, off a roof. Votes: 3

Holly Black

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Flattery is false coin that is only current thanks to our vanity Votes: 3

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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Flattery is a base coin which is current only through our vanity. Votes: 3

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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Flattery is a foolish suicide; she destroys herself with her own hands. Votes: 3

Edward Gibbon

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Flattery is a counterfeit money which, but for vanity, would have no circulation. Votes: 3

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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I have a car that I call Flattery because it gets me nowhere. Votes: 3

Henny Youngman

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Flattery is from the teeth out. Sincere appreciation is from the heart out. Votes: 3

Dale Carnegie

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Flattery is from the teeth out. Sincere appreciation is from the heart out Votes: 3

Dale Carnegie

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Flattery, if judiciously administered, is always acceptable, however much we may despise the flatterer. Votes: 3

Bill Vaughan

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Flattery is false money, which would not be current were it not for our vanity. Votes: 3

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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Flattery is so necessary to us that we flatter one another just to be flattered in return. Votes: 3

Marjorie Bowen

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Sheer flattery got me into the theater. Flattery always works with me, particularly the flattery of women. Votes: 3

Carroll O'Connor

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Flattery is often a traffic of mutual meanness, where although both parties intend deception, neither are deceived. Votes: 3

Charles Caleb Colton

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Flattery's fire is hidden. Its sweet taste is apparent, but the smoke is bound to come out at last. Votes: 3

Rumi

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Flattery is no more than what raises in a man's mind an idea of a preference which he has not. Votes: 3

Edmund Burke

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Flattery is saying something nice in order to help yourself. Encouragement is saying something true in order help someone else. Votes: 3

Kevin DeYoung

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Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver; and adulation is not of more service to the people than to kings. Votes: 3

Edmund Burke

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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. Votes: 3

Dale Carnegie

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Flattery looks like friendship, just like a wolf looks like a dog. Food for thought is no substitute for the real thing. Votes: 3

Walt Kelly

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I would give worlds, could I believe One-half that is profess'd me; Affection! could I think it Thee, When Flattery has caress'd me. Votes: 3

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

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Flattery is like wine, which exhilarates a man for a moment, but usually ends by going to his head and making him act foolishly. Votes: 3

Helen Rowland

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Flattery has a short battery life, but reminding people they are amazing and precious and wanted and works of art can truly change their lives. Votes: 3

Donald Miller

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Flattery is an ensnaring quality, and leaves a very dangerous impression. It swells a man's imagination, entertains his vanity, and drives him to a doting upon his own person. Votes: 3

Jeremy Collier

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Flattery is never so agreeable as to our blind side; commend a fool for his wit, or a knave for his honesty, and they will receive you into their bosoms Votes: 3

Henry Fielding

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Flattery of the verbal kind is gross. In short, applause is of too coarse a nature to be swallowed in the gross, though the extract or tincture be ever so agreeable. Votes: 3

William Shenstone

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Flattery does not encourage the perfect flow of love in the vein of your relationship. Be genuine and speak out what you feel for each other without hiding the painful truth. Votes: 3

Michael Bassey

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Flattery does not encourage the perfect flow of love in the vein of your relationship. Be genuine and speak out what you feel for each other without hiding the painful truth. Votes: 3

Michael Bassey Johnson

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The saying 'flattery gets you everywhere' appalls me. If you're going to pay someone a compliment make sure it's 100% genuine or not at all.-Flattery is deception and who wants to be lied to? Votes: 3

Miya Yamanouchi

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Gossip involves saying behind a person's back what you would never say to his or her face. Flattery means saying to a person's face what you would never say behind his or her back. Votes: 3

R. Kent Hughes

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Flattery, though a base coin, is the necessary pocket money at court; where, by custom and consent, it has obtained such a currency that it is no longer a fraudulent, but a legal payment. Votes: 3

Bill Vaughan

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Flattery is a challenge. The proper turning away from it, undercutting, diminishing it without offense or vehemence, is a social grace sweeter even than the swift determination to keep ahead in the race of hospitality. Votes: 3

Elizabeth Hardwick

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Flattery pleases very generally. In the first place, the flatterer may think what he says to be true; but, in the second place, whether he thinks so or not, he certainly thinks those whom he flatters of consequence enough to be flattered. Votes: 3

Samuel Johnson

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There is flattery in friendship. Votes: 2

William Shakespeare

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Imitation is the sincerest flattery. Votes: 2

Mahatma Gandhi

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Imitation is the sincerest of flattery. Votes: 2

Charles Caleb Colton

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Imitation is the highest form of flattery. Votes: 2

Charles Caleb Colton

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Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. Votes: 2

Charles Caleb Colton

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Immitation is the sincerest form of flattery. Votes: 2

Charles Caleb Colton

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Implementation is the sincerest form of flattery. Votes: 2

L Peter Deutsch

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Imitation is obviously a great form of flattery. Votes: 2

Peyton Manning

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Listening, not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery. Votes: 2

Joyce Brothers

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A little flattery will support a man through great fatigue. Votes: 2

James Monroe

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Between flattery and admiration there often flows a river of contempt. Votes: 2

Minna Antrim

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Imitation is flattery, and The Hills Have Eyes is a classic. Votes: 2

Michael Berryman

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He who knows how to flatter also knows how to slander. Votes: 2

Napoleon Bonaparte

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Look closely at those who patronize you. Half are unfeeling, half untaught. Votes: 2

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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If we did not flatter ourselves, the flattery of others could never harm us. Votes: 2

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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The flattery of posterity is not worth much more than contemporary flattery, which is worth nothing. Votes: 2

Jorge Luis Borges

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Nature has hardly formed a woman ugly enough to be insensible to flattery upon her person. Votes: 2

Lord Chesterfield

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I know imitation is the highest form of flattery, but stealing one's identity is totally different. Votes: 2

AnnaLynne McCord

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I have always found it interesting... that there are people who regard copyright infringement as a form of flattery. Votes: 2

Tom Lehrer

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None are more taken in by flattery than the proud, who wish to be the first and are not. Votes: 2

Baruch Spinoza

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Hypocrisy can plunge the mind of a man into a dark abyss, when he believes his own self-flattery instead of God's verdict. Votes: 2

John Calvin

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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. Votes: 2

Georg C. Lichtenberg

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Imitation is the highest form of flattery, but clones kind of get it wrong because we are promoting individuality and being proud of being yourself. Votes: 2

Brian Molko

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The best form of flattery is to be admired, imitated or respected. I've always felt proud our fans look up to us or feel we are inspirational. Votes: 2

Cheryl James

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Nothing is so great an example of bad manners as flattery. If you flatter all the company, you please none; If you flatter only one or two, you offend the rest. Votes: 2

Jonathan Swift

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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. Votes: 2

Jean de la Bruyere

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I trust it will not be giving away professional secrets to say that many readers would be surprised, perhaps shocked, at the questions which some newspaper editors will put to a defenseless woman under the guise of flattery. Votes: 2

Kate Chopin

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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. Votes: 2

Sonia Sotomayor

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L.A. runs on optimism, enthusiasm and flattery. I think you can go a little bit crazy. I've heard people say there's a limit to the number of years you can stay in this city without going slightly mad. It's just too damn sunny in every dimension - weather-wise, socially and professionally. Votes: 2

Hugh Laurie

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My cut is blunt and futuristic, and Nicki Minaj started wearing that bob on her head after she came to my show, so at the end of the day, I know what I do, and I know what I possess, and I know who I am. I'm a trendsetter. The biggest form of flattery is imitation, so I'm flattered. Votes: 2

Lil Mama

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Let those flatter who fear; it is not an American art Votes: 1

Thomas Jefferson

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Everyone likes flattery, and when you come to Royalty, you should lay it on with a thick trowel Votes: 1

Benjamin Disraeli

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What signifies protesting so against flattery! when a person speaks well of one, it must either be true or false, you know; if true, let us rejoice in his good opinion; if he lies, it is a proof at least that he loves more to please me, than to sit s Votes: 1

Samuel Johnson

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Imitation is flattery Votes: 0

Rick Riordan

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Imitation is always insult--not flattery. Votes: 0

Frank Lloyd Wright

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Invitation is the sincerest flattery. Votes: 0

Carolyn Wells

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Knavery and flattery are blood relations. Votes: 0

Abraham Lincoln

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The god-who-serves-ME requires flattery, not worship. Votes: 0

Tom Wells

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What valor cannot win, flattery may. Votes: 0

Publilius Syrus

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What I like is bottomless flattery. Votes: 0

Peter O'Toole

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Copying is the highest form of flattery Votes: 0

Tito Sotto

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Attention is a silent and perpetual flattery. Votes: 0

Sophie Swetchine

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Of course you like him; everyone enjoys flattery. Votes: 0

Christopher Paolini

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Flee flattery, false praise and fair weather friends Votes: 0

Fraser Young

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Heart-stopping envy is the sincerest form of flattery. Votes: 0

Anna Godbersen

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I like rudeness a great deal better than flattery. Votes: 0

Charlotte Bronte

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The gallantry of the mind consists in agreeable flattery. Votes: 0

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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Advertising - A judicious mixture of flattery and threats. Votes: 0

Stephen Leacock

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Advertising - a judicious mixture of flattery and threats. Votes: 0

Northrop Frye

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I think imitation is always the greatest form of flattery. Votes: 0

Simon de Pury

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Imitation isn't the sincerest form of flattery - it's plagiarism. Votes: 0

Red Skelton

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The encomium of one incapable of flattery is indeed flattering. Votes: 0

Percy Bysshe Shelley

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Nothing is so great an instance of ill-manners as flattery. Votes: 0

Jonathan Swift

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Let flattery, the handmaid of the vices, be far removed . Votes: 0

Marcus Tullius Cicero

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Nothing is harder to resist than a bit of flattery. Votes: 0

Arnold Lobel

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Your flattery is as full of contempt as your insults were. Votes: 0

Mason Cooley

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Just praise is only a debt, but flattery is a present. Votes: 0

Samuel Johnson

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Whitney: You black-hearted, treacherous, conniving scoundrel. Clayton: Your flattery warms my heart Votes: 0

Judith McNaught

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When we seek appreciation from others, we get not appreciation, but flattery. Votes: 0

Sri Chinmoy

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Few human beings are proof against the implied flattery of rapt attention. Votes: 0

Jack Woodford

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If imitation is the greatest form of flattery, Punk, don't flatter me. Votes: 0

J-Ro

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flattery would be worse than vain; there is no consolation in flattery. Votes: 0

Charlotte Bronte

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To be most effective, flattery is always best applied with a trowel. Votes: 0

Alan Bradley

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It is easier and handier for men to flattery than to praise. Votes: 0

Jean Paul

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It is possible to be below flattery as well as above it. Votes: 0

Charles R. Forbes

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The flattery is nice, but awards don't add up to writing quality songs. Votes: 0

Chantal Kreviazuk

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Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery that mediocrity can pay to greatness. Votes: 0

Oscar Wilde

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The firmest purpose of a woman's heart to well-timed, artful flattery may yield. Votes: 0

George Lillo

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Like pollen on a honeybee, flattery clings to the things you tell yourself. Votes: 0

Willis Regier

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Sarcasm is the lowest form of humor but the highest form of flattery. Votes: 0

Benjamin Franklin

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No visor does become black villainy so well as soft and tender flattery. Votes: 0

William Shakespeare

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The most dangerous of all flattery is the inferiority of those about us. Votes: 0

Sophie Swetchine

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There is no flattery so adroit or effectual as that of implicit assent. Votes: 0

William Hazlitt

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O Beauty, find thyself in love, not in the flattery of thy mirror. Votes: 0

Rabindranath Tagore

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I am an actor and of course I respond very positively to flattery. Votes: 0

Julia Roberts

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I don't think imitation is the highest form of flattery, I think it's annoying. Votes: 0

Pink

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Men sometimes think they hate flattery, but they hate only the manner of flattering. Votes: 0

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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Though flattery blossoms like friendship, yet there is a vast difference in the fruit. Votes: 0

Socrates

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Mountains of gold would not seduce some men, yet flattery would break them down. Votes: 0

Henry Ward Beecher

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Nothing in this world is harder than speaking the truth, nothing easier than flattery. Votes: 0

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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To ask advice is in nine cases out of ten to tout for flattery. Votes: 0

John Churton Collins

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Gossip is what you say about the objects of flattery when they aren't present. Votes: 0

P. J. O'Rourke

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Nothing in this world is harder than speaking the truth, nothing easier than flattery. Votes: 0

Fyodor Dostoevsky

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Nothing says, 'I pay attention to detail!' like footwear flattery from a boy. Votes: 0

Rachel Nichols

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One may define flattery as a base companionship which is most advantageous to the flatterer. Votes: 0

Theophrastus

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The ambitious are forever followed by adulation for they receive the most pleasure from flattery. Votes: 0

Oliver Goldsmith

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We would seldom be deceived by flattery, did our own conceit not promote the delusion. Votes: 0

Norm MacDonald

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Imitation is the greatest form of flattery, but worship is the greatest form of adoration. Votes: 0

Jayce O'Neal

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I hate careless flattery, the kind that exhausts you in your efforts to believe it. Votes: 0

Wilson Mizner

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The most subtle flattery that a woman can receive is by actions, not by words. Votes: 0

Suzanne Curchod

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The voice of history is often little more than the organ of hatred or flattery. Votes: 0

Edward Gibbon

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The most skillful flattery is to let a person talk on, and be a listener. Votes: 0

Joseph Addison

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Money is the sincerest of all flattery. Women love to be flattered. So do men. Votes: 0

Robert A. Heinlein

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We sometimes imagine we hate flattery, but we only hate the way we are flattered. Votes: 0

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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When a woman has not received much flattery in her life, she will be seduced. Votes: 0

Melina Marchetta

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In Hollywood, imitation is the most profitable form of flattery. That is the only plausible explanation... Votes: 0

Desson Thomson

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Can honor's voice provoke the silent dust, or flattery soothe the dull, cold ear of death? Votes: 0

Thomas Gray

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Imitation is not just the sincerest form of flattery - it's the sincerest form of learning. Votes: 0

George Bernard Shaw

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Love of another is merely empty flattery and self-deception for one who cannot accept himself without pretense. Votes: 0

L.E. Modesitt Jr.

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Beware of flattery, 'tis a weed Which oft offends the very idol--vice, Whose shrine it would perfume. Votes: 0

Elijah Fenton

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Vanity is truly the motive power that moves humanity, and it is flattery that greases the wheels. Votes: 0

St. Jerome

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Let flattery, the handmaid of the vices, be far removed (from friendship). [Lat., Assentatio, vitiorum adjutrix, procul amoveatur.] Votes: 0

Marcus Tullius Cicero

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Now flattery can never do good; twice cursed in the giving and the receiving, it ought to be. Votes: 0

Maria Edgeworth

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Sometimes we think we dislike flattery, but it is only the way it is done that we dislike. Votes: 0

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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Complimenting someone in an exaggerated way is known as flattery, and flattery will generally get you anything you want... Votes: 0

Daniel Handler

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A little flattery makes people feel good about themselves. When you notice someone looking great, give them a compliment. Votes: 0

Ken Blanchard

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Direct, forceful, energetic. Loves power, eats up publicity and flattery... Can turn on charm at will and knows it. Votes: 0

Joseph Stilwell

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No matter what other nations may say about the United States, immigration is still the sincerest form of flattery. Votes: 0

Clayton Cramer

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Patron: One who countenances, supports or protects. Commonly a wretch who supports with insolence, and is repaid in flattery. Votes: 0

Samuel Johnson

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Every man kills the things that he loves. Some with a look, some with flattery, the coward with a kiss. Votes: 0

Eric Jerome Dickey

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What wouldst thou do, old man? Think'st thou that duty shall have dread to speak When power to flattery bows? Votes: 0

William Shakespeare

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Love of flattery, in most men, proceeds from the mean opinion they have of themselves; in women, from the contrary. Votes: 0

Jonathan Swift

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Every woman is infallibly to be gained by every sort of flattery, and every man by one sort or other. Votes: 0

Bill Vaughan

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Our domestic Napoleons, too many of them, give flattery, bonnets and bracelets to women, and everything else but - justice ... Votes: 0

Fanny Fern

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Confidence, as opposed, to modesty and distinguished from decent assurance, proceeds from self-opinion, and is occasioned by ignorance and flattery. Votes: 0

Jeremy Collier

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I look at my work and make up my mind about it. After that, neither flattery nor criticism matters to me. Votes: 0

Georgia O'Keeffe

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Among all the diseases of the mind there is not one more epidemical or more pernicious than the love of flattery. Votes: 0

Richard Steele

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There can hardly, I believe, be imagined a more desirable pleasure than that of praise unmixed with any possibility of flattery. Votes: 0

Richard Steele

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The habit of pleasing by flattery makes a language soft; the fear of offending by truth makes it circuitous and conventional. Votes: 0

Walter Savage Landor

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Katherine Kenton remains among the generation of women who feel that the most sincere form of flattery is the male erection. Votes: 0

Chuck Palahniuk

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Am I the only person in the world who is shocked and amazed at the ongoing flattery of uebergeek Mark Zuckerberg? Votes: 0

Tom Hodgkinson

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Fearing no insult, asking for no crown, receive with indifference both flattery and slander, and do not argue with a fool. Votes: 0

Alexander Pushkin

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I have already settled it for myself so flattery and criticism go down the same drain and I am quite free. Votes: 0

Georgia O'Keeffe

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No adulation; 'tis the death of virtue; Who flatters, is of all mankind the lowest Save he who courts the flattery. Votes: 0

Hannah More

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When someone you loved finds no flattery in the gift you gave them then you must ask yourself, "What was worth loving? Votes: 0

Shannon L. Alder

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In the best, the friendliest and simplest relations flattery or praise is necessary, just as grease is necessary to keep wheels turning. Votes: 0

Leo Tolstoy

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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. Votes: 0

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

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Never was flattery lost on a poet's ear; a simple race, they waste their toil for the vain tribute of a smile. Votes: 0

Walter Scott

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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. Votes: 0

Michel de Montaigne

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Ausonius must be read to be believed! As poet, no subject is too trivial for him; as courtier, no flattery too excessive. Votes: 0

Decimius Magnus Ausonius

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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. Votes: 0

Samuel Johnson

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It is no flattery to give a friend a due character; for commendation is as much the duty of a friend as reprehension. Votes: 0

Plutarch

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In my experience, there are two things that no one will admit to: having no sense of humor and being susceptible to flattery. Votes: 0

Margaret George

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Women have, in general, but ne object, which is their beauty; upon which, scarce any flattery is too gross for them to swallow. Votes: 0

Lord Chesterfield

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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. Votes: 0

Pierre de Marivaux

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We love flattery, even though we are not deceived by it, because it shows that we are of importance enough to be courted. Votes: 0

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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A little flattery, like a warm bath and soft towel, will let you get along with yourself, lie down with yourself, and sleep. Votes: 0

Willis Regier

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I believe that love--not imitation--is the sincerest form of flattery. Your imitator thinks that you can be duplicated; your lover knows you can't. Votes: 0

Marilyn vos Savant

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Cooking is a form of flattery....a mischievous, deceitful, mean and ignoble activity, which cheats us by shapes and colors, by smoothing and draping.... Votes: 0

Plato

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[Samuel] Johnson's conversation was by much too strong for a person accustomed to obsequiousness and flattery; it was mustard in a young child's mouth! Votes: 0

Hester Lynch Piozzi

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There is no other way to guard yourself against flattery than by making men understand that telling you the truth will not offend you. Votes: 0

Niccolo Machiavelli

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It is scarcely credible to what degree discernment may be dazzled by the mist of pride, and wisdom infatuated by the intoxication of flattery. Votes: 0

Samuel Johnson

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Although I am small, ugly and dirty, I am highly ambitious, and at the slightest flattery, I immediately start to strut like a turkey. Votes: 0

Italo Calvino

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Feel you the barren flattery of a rhyme? Can poets soothe you, when you pine for bread, By winding myrtle round your ruin'd shed? Votes: 0

George Crabbe

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The love of one's own sex is precious, for it is neither provoked by vanity nor retained by flattery; it is genuine and sincere. Votes: 0

Maria Mitchell

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A world without any lies at all is not a good world, because it's artless and because there are no white lies, no flattery. Votes: 0

Ricky Gervais

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No flattery, boy! an honest man cannot live by it; it is a little, sneaking art, which knaves use to cajole and soften fools withal. Votes: 0

Thomas Otway

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I can spot empty flattery and know exactly where I stand. In the end it's really only my own approval or disapproval that means anything Votes: 0

Agnetha Faltskog

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The aim of flattery is to soothe and encourage us by assuring us of the truth of an opinion we have already formed about ourselves. Votes: 0

Edith Sitwell

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The man that lays his hand upon a woman, Save in the way of kindness, is a wretch Whom't were gross flattery to name a coward. Votes: 0

John M. Tobin, Jr.

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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. Votes: 0

Aristotle

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There's two things that you don't listen to: flattery, which can't help you, and abuse, which can't hurt you. You have to look at the facts. Votes: 0

Jim Tressel

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Adroit observers will find that some who affect to dislike flattery, may yet be flattered indirectly, by a well seasoned abuse and ridicule of their rivals. Votes: 0

Charles Caleb Colton

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Some indeed there are who profess to despise all flattery, but even these are nevertheless to be flattered, by being told that they do despise it. Votes: 0

Charles Caleb Colton

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To thee, fair Freedom! I retire From flattery, cards, and dice, and din: Nor art thou found in mansions higher Than the low cot, or humble inn. Votes: 0

William Shenstone

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When one looks truly at the good side of everyone, others come to love him very naturally, and he does not need even a speck of flattery. Votes: 0

Abraham Isaac Kook

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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. Votes: 0

Jim Gaffigan

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It is worth thought what kind of mind or condition or disposition is open to flattery; for poison would not be spread if the rats ate it not. Votes: 0

James Vila Blake

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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. Votes: 0

William Butler Yeats

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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. Votes: 0

Anna Akhmatova

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Copying is the greatest form of flattery, I guess. I am actually a little surprised that Vincent Lo didn't try and make a deal to be on The Apprentice,. Votes: 0

Donald Trump

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'T is an old maxim in the schools, That flattery 's the food of fools; Yet now and then your men of wit Will condescend to take a bit. Votes: 0

Jonathan Swift

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We must define flattery and praise; they are distinct. Trajan was encouraged to virtue by the panegyric Pliny; Tiberius became obstinate in vice from the flattery of his senators. Votes: 0

Louis XVI of France

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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. Votes: 0

Hugh Laurie

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I never paid you a compliment, Rachel, in my life. Successful love may sometimes use the language of flattery, I admit. But hopeless love, dearest, always speaks the truth. Votes: 0

Wilkie Collins

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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. Votes: 0

B. F. Skinner

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Whenever you commend, add your reasons for doing so; it is this which distinguishes the approbation of a man of sense from the flattery of sycophants and admiration of fools. Votes: 0

Richard Steele

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At its best, flattery is truth well dressed, and it is best dressed with fine see-through fabrics. Honest flattery can caress a lover, cover up a gaffe, and muffle aggression. Votes: 0

Willis Regier

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They say one of the greatest forms of flattery is for your son to follow in your footsteps. And so I enjoy that greatest form of flattery, without a doubt. Votes: 0

Dennis Franchione

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Morris read through the letter. Was it a shade too fulsome? No, that was another law of academic life: it is impossible to be excessive in flattery of one's peers. Votes: 0

David Lodge

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Okay, I'm flattered, I appreciate your attempt at making me feel better after the fiasco with the pita rolls, but please ring up this beer I need it more than flattery. Votes: 0

Amanda Filipacchi

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To experience commitment as the loss of options, a type of death, the death of childhood's limitless possibility, of the flattery of choice without duress-this will happen, mark me. Childhood's end. Votes: 0

David Foster Wallace

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Criss Jami

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Never permit yourself to indulge in cheap flattery, which often times means to merely satisfy the individuals vanity and sometimes to ingratiate the flatter into the good graces of the flattered. Votes: 0

Harold B. Lee

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The voice of flattery affects us after it has ceased, just as after a concert men find some agreeable air ringing in their ears to the exclusion of all serious business. Votes: 0

Seneca the Younger

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It is necessary to the success of flattery, that it be accommodated to particular circumstances or characters, and enter the heart on that side where the passions are ready to receive it. Votes: 0

Samuel Johnson

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There is no tongue that flatters like a lover's; and yet, in the exaggeration of his feelings, flattery seems to him commonplace. Strange and prodigal exuberance, which soon exhausts itself by flowing! Votes: 0

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

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If solitude deprives of the benefit of advice, it also excludes from the mischief of flattery. But the absence of others' applause is generally supplied by the flattery of one's own breast. Votes: 0

William Benton Clulow

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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. Votes: 0

Doug Stanhope

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It is possible to be below flattery as well as above it. One who trusts nobody will not trust sycophants. One who does not value real glory will not value its counterfeit. Votes: 0

Thomas B. Macaulay

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He who says he hates all kinds of flattery, and says so in earnest, has undoubtedly not as yet become acquainted with all kinds of it, whether in substance or in form. Votes: 0

Georg C. Lichtenberg

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Many a maid have I won by a quarrel, when flattery was in no wise helpful; but take heed that thou art in the wrong, so that thou mayest acknowledge thine error. Votes: 0

Gelett Burgess

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The world is a king, and like a king, desires flattery in return for favor; but true art is selfish and perverse â it will not submit to the mold of flattery. Votes: 0

Ludwig van Beethoven

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We never slam the door on flattery, we nudge it shut like a man rejecting his mistress: if she nudges back, we're delighted Â and if she breaks it down, we rejoice. Votes: 0

Walter Wangerin

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Slander, in the strict meaning of the term, comes under the head of lying; but it is a kind of lying which, like its antithesis flattery, ought to be set apart for special censure. Votes: 0

Washington Gladden

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True love is mixed up with birdlike squabbles, in which the disputants wound each other to the quick; but a quarrel without animus is, on the contrary, apiece of flattery to the dupe's conceit. Votes: 0

Honore de Balzac

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Dogs live with man as courtiers 'round a monarch, steeped in the flattery of his notice ... to push their favor in this world of pickings and caresses is, perhaps, the business of their lives. Votes: 0

Robert Louis Stevenson

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We sometimes think that we hate flattery, but we only hate the manner in which it is done. [Fr., On croit quelquefoir hair la flatterie; maid on ne hait que a maniere de flatter.] Votes: 0

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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If you want to make an ordinary man happy, or think that he is happy, give him money, power, flattery, gifts, honours. If you want to make a wise man happy - improve yourself! Votes: 0

Idries Shah

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Now, in my opinion, a woman has no business with Power-Power admits no equal, and dismisses friendship for flattery. Besides, it keeps the men at a distance, and that is not always what we wish. Votes: 0

George Edward Moore

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This flattery has been rather slow in coming. I think all of sudden late in life now I'm getting some credit for what I've done. Which is gratifying, but it's kind of a little late. Votes: 0

Jack Vance

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But even this piece of flattery couldn't distract me from the fact that I was in the center of the Fae realm, blind, stark naked, and without the slightest idea of what was going on. Votes: 0

Patrick Rothfuss

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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. Votes: 0

Napoleon Hill

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Say not unto thyself, Behold, truth breedeth hatred, and I will avoid it; dissimulation raiseth friends, and I will follow it. Are not the enemies made by truth, better than the friends obtained by flattery? Votes: 0

Akhenaton

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The heights of popularity and patriotism are still the beaten road to power and tyranny; flattery to treachery; standing armies to arbitrary government; and the glory of God to the temporal interest of the clergy. Votes: 0

David Hume

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Listening, not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery. . . . If you want to influence someone, listen to what he says. . . . When he finishes talking, ask him about any points that you do not understand. Votes: 0

Joyce Brothers

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The world's flattery and hypocrisy is a sweet morsel: eat less of it, for it is full of fire. Its fire is hidden while its taste is manifest, but its smoke becomes visible in the end.

Rumi

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Praise is flattery, artful, hidden, delicate, which gratifies differently him who praises and him who is praised. The one takes it as the reward of merit, the other bestows it to show his impartiality and knowledge.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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If men of eminence are exposed to censure on one hand, they are as much liable to flattery on the other. If they receive reproaches which are not due to them, they likewise receive praises which they do not deserve.

Joseph Addison

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The mischief of flattery is, not that it persuades any man that he is what he is not, but that it suppresses the influence of honest ambition, by raising an opinion that honour may be gained without the toil of merit.

Samuel Johnson

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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

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Hope means hoping when things are hopeless, or it is no virtue at all... As long as matters are really hopeful, hope is mere flattery or platitude; it is only when everything is hopeless that hope begins to be a strength.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

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We have lost the old love of work, of work which kept itself company, which was fair weather and music in the heart, which found its reward in the doing, craving neither the flattery of vulgar eyes nor the gold of vulgar men.

John Lancaster Spalding

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Men who stand in the highest ranks of society seldom hear of their faults; if by any accident an opprobrious clamour reaches their ears, flattery is always at hand to pour in her opiates, to quiet conviction and obtund remorse.

Samuel Johnson

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Nature has hardly formed a woman ugly enough to be insensible to flattery upon her person; if her face is so shocking that she must in some degree be conscious of it, her figure and her air, she trusts, make ample amends for it.

Bill Vaughan

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Since you are my readers, and I have not been much of a traveler, I will not talk about people a thousand miles off, but come as near home as I can. As the time is short, I will leave out all the flattery, and retain all the criticism.

Henry David Thoreau

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Imitation is the surest form of flattery and failure. I am not interested with your talk about my ideas. I am more interested in your applying them to your life. If you do not, then you are essentially not in accord with your own mind.

Miyamoto Musashi

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Compliments and flattery oftenest excite my contempt by the pretension they imply; for who is he that assumes to flatter me? To compliment often implies an assumption of superiority in the complimenter. It is, in fact, a subtle detraction.

Henry David Thoreau

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Astronomy was born of superstition; eloquence of ambition, hatred, falsehood, and flattery; geometry of avarice; physics of an idle curiosity; and even moral philosophy of human pride. Thus the arts and sciences owe their birth to our vices.

Jean-Baptiste Rousseau

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Of all sorts of flattery, that which comes from a solemn character and stands before a sermon is the worst-complexioned. Such commendation is a satire upon the author, makes the text look mercenary, and disables the discourse from doing service.

Jeremy Collier

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Always try to grow in your garden some plant or plants out of the ordinary, something your neighbors never attempted. For you can receive no greater flattery than to have a gardener of equal intelligence stand before your plant and ask, "What is that?"

Richardson Wright

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The noblest part of a friend is an honest boldness in the notifying of errors. He that tells me of a fault, aiming at my good, I must think him wise and faithful--wise in spying that which I see not; faithful in a plain admonishment, not tainted with flattery.

Owen Feltham

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When will the public cease to insult the teacher's calling with empty flattery? When will men who would never for a moment encourage their own sons to enter the work of the public schools cease to tell us that education is the greatest and noblest of all human callings?

William Bagley

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The Marquis believed himself to be hardened against flattery. He thought that he had experienced every variety, but he discovered that he was mistaken: the blatantly worshipful look in the eyes of a twelve-year-old, anxiously raised to his, was new to him, and it pierced his defences.

Georgette Heyer

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