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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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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Listening, not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery.
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Between flattery and admiration there often flows a river of contempt.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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A fool flatters himself, a wise man flatters the fool.
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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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Flatter not thyself in thy faith in God if thou hast not charity for thy neighbor.
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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 compliment is a statement of an agreeable truth; flattery is a statement of an agreeable untruth.
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I hate careless flattery, the kind that exhausts you in your effort to believe it.
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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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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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A compliment is a statement of an agreeable truth; flattery is the statement of an agreeable untruth.
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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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When will the public cease to insult the teacher's calling with empty flattery When will men who would never for a moment encourage their own sons to enter the work of the public schools cease to tell us that education is the greatest and noblest of all human callings
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Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.
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