Quotes about Flatter

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It does good to no woman to be flattered [by a man] who does not intend to marry her; and it is madness in all women to — Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
Popular culture is a place where pity is called compassion, flattery is called love, propaganda is called knowledge, ten — Criss Jami, Killosophy
I believe that love--not imitation--is the sincerest form of flattery. Your imitator thinks that you can be duplicated y — Marilyn Vos Savant
I cannot encourage any fabrication even for the sake of making people feel good. If I were to fabricate consciously and — Criss Jami, Killosophy
An acquaintance merely enjoys your company, a fair-weather companion flatters when all is well, a true friend has your b — E.A. Bucchianeri, Brushstrokes of a Gadfly
Flattery does not encourage the perfect flow of love in the vein of your relationship. Be genuine and speak out what you — Michael Bassey Johnson
I earnestly wish to point out in what true dignity and human happiness consists. I wish to persuade women to endeavor to — Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
The public wants work which flatters its illusions. — Gustave Flaubert
In Paris, where raillery is so quick to throw emotion out the window, silence, in a roomful of clever people after a sto — Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly
In the best, the friendliest and simplest relations flattery or praise is necessary, just as grease is necessary to keep — Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace
I live on shameless flattery...and vodka...but the two usually go hand in hand. — Vicktor Alexander
He shook his head, but I kept flattering him, telling him how fine his beard was, how fair his skin was (ha!), how it wa — Aravind Adiga, The White Tiger
After this manner conceive that a flatterer differs from a friend: for it often happens to both that they engage in the — Maximus Tyrius, The Dissertations of Maximus Tyrius, Volume 1
The man was a bully. A bully who'd elevated himself to a high-level position, but a bully just the same. No amount of fl — Gwenda Bond, Triple Threat
I hate to hear you talk about all women as if they were fine ladies instead of rational creatures. None of us want to be — Jane Austen, Persuasion
When a woman has not received much flattery in her life, she will be seduced. — Melina Marchetta, Froi of the Exiles
I can understand backward patriarchal reasoning coming from a male, but from a woman - and of all people, a leader of wo — Christina Engela, Demonspawn
Imitation is the greatest form of flattery, but worship is the greatest form of adoration. — Jayce O'Neal
Any halfway clever devil would decorate the highway to Hell as beautiful as possible. — Criss Jami, Healology
The most preposterous notion that Homo sapiens has ever dreamed up is that the Lord God of Creation, Shaper and Ruler of — Robert A. Heinlein, Time Enough for Love