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QUOTES AND APHORISMS ON FLATTERERS
Between flattery and admiration there often flows a river of contempt.
Minna Antrim (1861-1950, American epigrammist)
Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt, not swallowed.
Josh Billings (1815-1885, American humorist, lecturer)
A fool flatters himself, a wise man flatters the fool.
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton (1803-1873, British novelist, poet)
Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.
Edmund Burke (1729-1797, British political writer, statesman)
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)
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)
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)
For lack of a better term, they've labeled me a sex symbol. It's flattering and it should happen to every bald, overweight guy.
Dennis Franz (1944-, American actor, playwright)
Beware the flatterer: He feeds you with an empty spoon.
Cosino De Gregrio
Sometimes we believe that we hate flattery, when in reality, we only dislike the method of flattery.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680, French classical writer)
Just praise is only a debt, but flattery is a present.
Samuel Johnson (1709-1784, British author)
Just praise is only a debt, but flattery is a present.
Samuel Johnson (1709-1784, British author)
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)
Be advised that all flatterers live at the expense of those who listen to them.
Jean De La Fontaine (1621-1695, French poet)
Every flatterer lives at the expense of him who listens to him.
Jean De La Fontaine (1621-1695, French poet)
Self-love is the greatest of all flatterers.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680, French classical writer)
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)
The more we love our friends, the less we flatter them; it is by excusing nothing that pure love shows itself.
Jean Baptiste Moliere (1622-1673, French playwright)
He that flatters you more than you desire either has deceived you or wishes to deceive.
Italian Proverb (Sayings of Italian origin)
You can only endure the weaknesses of others by knowing your own. Flattery is the best persuader.
Japanese Proverb (Sayings of Japanese origin)
Flattery makes friends and truth makes enemies.
Spanish Proverb (Sayings of Spanish origin)
Flatter not thyself in thy faith in God if thou hast not charity for thy neighbor.
Francis Quarles (1592-1644, British poet)
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)
It is simpler and easier to flatter people than to praise them.
Jean Paul Richter (1763-1825, German novelist)
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)
He that loves to be flattered is worthy of the flatterer.
William Shakespeare (1564-1616, British poet, playwright, actor)
I will praise any man that will praise me.
William Shakespeare (1564-1616, British poet, playwright, actor)
What really flatters a man is that you think him worth flattering.
George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950, Irish-born British dramatist)
Baloney is flattery laid on so thick it cannot be true, and blarney is flattery so thin we love it.
Fulton John Sheen (1895-1979, American Roman Catholic clergyman, broadcaster)
None are more taken in by flattery than the proud, who wish to be the first and are not.
Baruch Benedict de Spinoza (1632-1677, Dutch philosopher and theologian)
I cannot think of any character below the flatterer, except he who envies him.
Sir Richard Steele (1672-1729, British dramatist, essayist, editor)
Flattery is all right if you don't inhale.
Adlai E. Stevenson (1900-1965, American lawyer, politician)
Flattery is a form of hatred.
The Holy Bible (Sacred scriptures of Christians and Judaism)
A flatterer is a man that tells you your opinion and not his own.
Author Unknown
A flatterer is one who says things to your face that he wouldn't say behind your back.
Author Unknown
If we did not flatter ourselves, the flattery from others would not harm us.
Author Unknown
Many lick before they bite.
Author Unknown
The coin that is most current among mankind is flattery: the only benefit of which is that by hearing what we are not, we may be instructed on what to become.
Author Unknown
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