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Flattery Quotes
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I wish Christianity were more productive of good works .. I mean real good works .. not holy-day keeping, sermon-hearing .. or making long prayers, filled with flatteries and compliments despised by wise men, and much less capable of pleasing the. (Quote by - Benjamin Franklin)
The best way to convince a fool that he is wrong is to let him have his own way. (Quote by - Josh Billings)
Do not offer a compliment and ask a favor at the same time. A compliment that is charged for is not valuable. (Quote by - Mark Twain)
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. (Quote by - Seneca)
Young men think old men are fools, but old men know young men are fools. (Quote by - George Chapman)
Here comes Glib-tongue: who can out-flatter a Dedication; and lie, like ten Epitaphs. (Quote by - Benjamin Franklin)
O that men's ears should be To counsel deaf but not to flattery! (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
Flattery is like chewing gum. Enjoy it but don't swallow it. (Quote by - Hank Ketcham)
Yet each man kills the thing he loves, By each let this be heard, Some do it with a bitter look, Some with a flattering word. The coward does it with a kiss, The brave man with a sword!. (Quote by - Oscar Wilde)
It is easy to flatter; it is harder to praise. (Quote by - Jean Paul Richter)
A fool flatters himself, a wise man flatters the fool. (Quote by - Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton)
Flattery is all right so long as you don't inhale. (Quote by - Adlai E. Stevenson)
The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can ever end. (Quote by - Benjamin Disraeli)
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. (Quote by - Philip Dormer Stanhope)