Flattery

(338 votes)   Flattery is a form of hatred.

Bible
Sacred Scriptures of Christians and Judaism

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(322 votes)   Flattery is all right if you don't inhale.

Adlai E. Stevenson
1900-1965, American Lawyer, Politician

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(277 votes)   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
1788-1824, British Poet

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(275 votes)   Nothing flatters a man as much as the happiness of his wife; he is always proud of himself as the source of it.

Samuel Johnson
1709-1784, British Author

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(269 votes)   Don't flatter the rich, or appear to willing before the great.

Thomas p Kempis
1379-1471, German Monk, Mystic, Religious Writer

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(269 votes)   What really flatters a man is that you think him worth flattering.

George Bernard Shaw
1856-1950, Irish-born British Dramatist

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(268 votes)   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
1742-1799, German Physicist, Satirist

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(262 votes)   We swallow with one gulp the lie that flatters us, and drink drop by drop the truth which is bitter to us.

Denis Diderot
1713-1784, French Philosopher

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(257 votes)   Flattery makes friends and truth makes enemies.

Spanish Proverbs
Sayings of Spanish Origin

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(248 votes)   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.

Helen Rowland
1875-1950, American Journalist

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(243 votes)   He that flatters you more than you desire either has deceived you or wishes to deceive.

Italian Proverbs
Sayings of Italian Origin

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(241 votes)   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.

Lord Chesterfield
1694-1773, British Statesman, Author

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(235 votes)   Every flatterer lives at the expense of him who listens to him.

Jean De La Fontaine
1621-1695, French Poet

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(227 votes)   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.

Sir Walter Raleigh
1552-1618, British Courtier, Navigator, Writer

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(226 votes)   A flatterer is one who says things to your face that he wouldn't say behind your back.

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