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.
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The flattery of posterity is not worth much more than contemporary flattery, which is worth nothing.
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Leadership is not magnetic personality--that can just as well be a glib tongue. It is not 'making friends and influencing people'--that is flattery. Leadership is lifting a person's vision to higher sights, the raising of a person's performance to a higher standard, the building of a personality beyond its normal limitations.
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A woman's flattery may inflate a man's head a little; but her criticism goes straight to his heart, and contracts it so that it can never again hold quite as much love for her.
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My passport photo is one of the most remarkable photographs I have ever seen --- no retouching, no shadows, no flattery --- just stark me.
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Immigration is the sincerest form of flattery.
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To thee, fair Freedom! I retire From flattery, cards, and dice, and din:...
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It is a wild, rank place, and there is no flattery in it. Strewn with crabs, horseshoes, and razor clams, and whatever the sea casts up,—a v...
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A girl loves most often because she is loved,Mnot from choice on her part. She is won by the flattery of the man's desire.
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Listening, not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery.
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Flattery in courtship is the highest insolence, for whilst it pretends to bestow on you more than you deserve, it is watching an opportunity t...
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I can spot empty flattery and know exactly where I stand. In the end it's really only my own approval or disapproval that means anything.
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Baloney is the unvarnished lie laid on so thick you hate it. Blarney is flattery laid on so thin you love it.
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I would rather hear the pleased laugh of a child over some feature of my exhibition than receive as I did the flattering compliments of the Prince of Wales.
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Baloney is the lie laid on so thick you hate it. Blarney is flattery laid on so thin you love it.
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Baloney is flattery laid on so thick it cannot be true, and blarney is flattery so thin we love it.
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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.
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Nature has hardly formed a woman ugly enough to be insensible to flattery upon her person; if her face is so shocking that she must in some degree be conscious of it, her figure and her air, she trusts, make ample amends for it.
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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 the result of previous study?
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A fool flatters himself, a wise man flatters the fool.
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Flatter not thyself in thy faith in God if thou hast not charity for thy neighbor.
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Between flattery and admiration there often flows a river of contempt.
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A compliment is a statement of an agreeable truth; flattery is a statement of an agreeable untruth.
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A compliment is a statement of an agreeable truth; flattery is the statement of an agreeable untruth.
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The best way to sell yourself to others is first to sell the others to yourself. Check yourself against this list of obstacles to a pleasing personality interrupting others sarcasm vanity being a poor listener insincere flattery finding fault challenging others without good cause giving unsolicited advice complaining attitude of superiority envy of others' success poor posture and dress.
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Whenever you commend, add your reasons for doing so; it is this which distinguishes the approbation of a man of sense from the flattery of sycophants and admiration of fools.
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Whenever you commend, add your reasons for doing so it is this which distinguishes the approbation of a man of sense from the flattery of sycophants and admiration of fools.
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Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.
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Our credulity is greatest concerning the things we know least about. And since we know least about ourselves, we are ready to believe all that is said about us. Hence the mysterious power of both flattery and calumny.
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If we did not flatter ourselves, the flattery of others could never harm us.
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