Flattery Quotes - Page : 2

Edward Chapin: "The brightest crowns that are worn in heaven have been tried, and smelted, and polished, and glorified through the furnace of tribulation." # Flattery # Adversity # Excellence

Minna Antrim: "Between Flattery and admiration there often flows a river of contempt." # Flattery

Bible : "Flattery is a form of hatred." # Flattery

Edward G Bulwer-Lytton: "A fool flatters himself, a wise man flatters the fool." # Flattery # Fools and Foolishness # Wisdom

Edmund Burke: "Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver." # Flattery # Giving # Power

Lord Byron: "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." # Flattery # Friends and Friendship # Lies and Lying

Lord Chesterfield: "Women who are either indisputably beautiful, or indisputably ugly, are best flattered upon the score of their understandings; but those who are in a state of mediocrity are best flattered upon their beauty, or at least their graces: for every woman who is not absolutely ugly, thinks herself handsome." # Flattery # Beauty # Women

Denis Diderot: "We swallow with one gulp the lie that flatters us, and drink drop by drop the truth which is bitter to us." # Flattery # Truth # Alcohol and Alcoholism

Dennis Franz: "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." # Flattery # Sex # Baldness

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: "Look closely at those who patronize you. Half are unfeeling, half untaught." # Flattery # Patronage # Politicians and Politics