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Letter "F" » Flattery
"It has been well said that "the arch-flatterer with whom all the
petty flatterers have intelligence is a man's self."
Author:
About: Flattery
"For there is no faithfulness in their mouth; their inward part is
very wickedness; their throat is an open sepulchre; they flatter
with their tongue."
Author: Bible
About: Flattery
"Let flattery, the handmaid of the vices, be far removed (from
friendship).
[Lat., Assentatio, vitiorum adjutrix, procul amoveatur.]"
Author: Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero)
About: Flattery
"Imitation is the sincerest of flattery."
Author: Charles Caleb Colton
About: Flattery
"Of praise a mere glutton, he swallow'd what came,
And the puff a dunce, he mistook it for fame;
Till his relish grown callous, almost to displease,
Who pepper'd the highest was surest to please."
Author: Oliver Goldsmith
About: Flattery
"The skilful class of flatterers praise the discourse of an
ignorant friend and the face of a deformed one.
[Lat., Adulandi gens prudentissima laudat
Sermonem indocti, faciem deformis amici.]"
Author: Juvenal (Decimus Junius Juvenal)
About: Flattery
"We sometimes think that we hate flattery, but we only hate the
manner in which it is done.
[Fr., On croit quelquefoir hair la flatterie; maid on ne hait que
a maniere de flatter.]"
Author: Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld
About: Flattery
"Gallantry of mind consists in saying flattering things in an
agreeable manner."
Author: Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld
About: Flattery
"No adulation; 'tis the death of virtue;
Who flatters, is of all mankind the lowest
Save he who courts the flattery."
Author: Hannah More
About: Flattery
"They who delight to be flattered, pay for their folly by a late
repentance.
[Lat., Qu se laudari gaudent verbis subdolis,
Sera dant peonas turpes poenitentia.]"
Author: Phaedrus (Thrace of Macedonia)
About: Flattery
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