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" Quotes and Sayings About flatter

Don’t be afraid of enemies who attack you. Be afraid of the friends who flatter you.

Attack Afraid Enemies Flatter
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Nothing in this world is harder than speaking the truth, nothing easier than flattery.
Nothing This World Speaking
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Don't flatter yourselves that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. On the contrary, the nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become.

Become Come Contrary Courtesy
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Though men are apt to flatter and exalt themselves with their great achievements, yet these are, in truth, very often owing not so much to design as chance.

Achievements Apt Chance Design
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They say Princes learn no art truly, but the art of horsemanship. The reason is, the brave beast is no flatterer. He will throw a prince as soon as his groom.

Art Beast Brave Flatterer
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Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.

Both Corrupts Flattery Giver
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My theory has always been, that if we are to dream, the flatteries of hope are as cheap, and pleasanter, than the gloom of despair.

Always Been Cheap Despair
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I once had a rose named after me and I was very flattered. But I was not pleased to read the description in the catalogue: no good in a bed, but fine up against a wall.

After Bed Catalogue Description
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He who knows how to flatter also knows how to slander.
Also Flatter He How
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I thought this convention phenomenon was very flattering, but that's about the extent of it.

Extent About Convention Very
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Say less than the other fellow and listen more than you talk; for when a man's listening he isn't telling on himself and he's flattering the fellow who is.

Listening Fellow Talk
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All the president is, is a glorified public relations man who spends his time flattering, kissing, and kicking people to get them to do what they are supposed to do anyway.

Anyway Flattering Get Glorified
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Gossip is what you say about the objects of flattery when they aren't present.
Gossip Object Flattery Present
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When the strong box contains no more both friends and flatterers shun the door.

Both Box Contains Door
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None are more taken in by flattery than the proud, who wish to be the first and are not.

BeTheFirst First Flattery More
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Flatter me, and I may not believe you. Criticize me, and I may not like you. Ignore me, and I may not forgive you. Encourage me, and I will not forget you. Love me and I may be forced to love you.

Flatter Believe Forgive Criticize
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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.

Small Dirty Ambitious Flattery
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The more we love our friends, the less we flatter them; it is by excusing nothing that pure love shows itself.

Flatter Friends Itself Less
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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.
Flattery Genuine Love Neither
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A fool flatters himself, a wise man flatters the fool.

Fool Flatters Himself Wise
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We flatter those we scarcely know, We please the fleeting guest; And deal full many a thoughtless blow, To those who love us best.

Flatter Scarcely know Fleeting guest Love
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Implementation is the sincerest form of flattery.
Flattery Form Implementation Sincerest
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For all of those willing to help me start a family, I am flattered. I will let you know when I need your help.
Am Family Flattered Help
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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.

Away Editors Flattery Giving
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The King of Spain displayed his esteem for me in a manner that I confess flattered me pleasantly when, after the death of Don Luis de Haro, he stated publicly in front of all the foreign ambassadors that he wanted to follow my example in not having a prime minister any longer.

After Ambassador Any Confess
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They who have reasoned ignorantly, or who have aimed at effecting their personal ends by flattering the popular feeling, have boldly affirmed that 'one man is as good as another;' a maxim that is true in neither nature, revealed morals, nor political theory.

Another Boldly Ends Feeling
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A little flattery will support a man through great fatigue.

Fatigue Flattery Great Little
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It is happy for you that you possess the talent of flattering with delicacy. May I ask whether these pleasing attentions proceed from the impulse of the moment, or are they the result of previous study?

Ask Delicacy Flattering Happy
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I assumed that everything must yield to me, that the entire universe had to flatter my whims, and that I had the right to satisfy them at will.

I assumed Everything Must yield Me
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Mathematicians may flatter themselves that they possess new ideas which mere human language is as yet unable to express

Mathematicians Flatter Possess New ideas
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And, indeed, nature has so made us, that we all love to be flattered and to please ourselves with our own notions

Nature Made us All love Be flattered
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Patience is a flatterer, sir, and an ass, sir.

Patient Flatterer Ass Sir
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To a poet, silence is an acceptable response, even a flattering one.

Poet Silence Response Flattering one
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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.

We Lie Truth Bitter
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Many are seeking inspiration more than they’re seeking instructions. That’s why the church is filled with flattery.

Many are Seeking inspiration Seeking instructions The church
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The world loves to be amused by hollow professions, to be deceived by flattering appearances, to live in a state of hallucination; and can forgive everything but the plain, downright, simple, honest truth.

World Loves Forgive Honest truth
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Hope is nothing but a deceitful flatterer accepted by reason only because it is often in need of palliatives.

Hope Deceitful Reason Need
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In politics, yesterday's lie is attacked only to flatter today's.

Politics Lie Flatter Today's
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All love is betrayal, in that it flatters life. The loveless man is best armed.

Love Betrayal Life Armed
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Action is consolatory. It is the enemy of thought and the friend of flattering illusions.

Action Enemy Friend Illusions
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Listening, not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery.

Listening Imitation Sincerest Flattery
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