Flatter Quotes

He who knows how to flatter also knows how to slander. (Napoleon Bonaparte)
Don't be afraid of enemies who attack you. Be afraid of the friends who flatter you. View quote
Dale Carnegie
The passions, whether violent or not, should never be so expressed as to reach the point of causing disgust; and music, even in situations of the greatest horror, should never be painful to the ear but should flatter and charm it, and thereby always remain music. View quote
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Nothing is so great an instance of ill-manners as flattery. If you flatter all the company, you please none if you flatter only one or two, you affront the rest. View quote
Jonathan Swift
People may flatter themselves just as much by thinking that their faults are always present to other people's minds, as if they believe that the world is always contemplating their individual charms and virtues. View quote
Elizabeth Gaskell
The more we love our friends, the less we flatter them; it is by excusing nothing that pure love shows itself. View quote
Molière
When our vices leave us, we flatter ourselves that we have left them. View quote
François de La Rochefoucauld
The difference between slaves in Roman and Ottoman days and today's employees is that slaves did not need to flatter their boss. View quote
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Mr Lely, I desire you would use all your skill to paint my picture freely like me, and not flatter me at all but remark all these roughnesses, pimples, warts and everything as you see me, otherwise I will never pay a farthing for it. View quote
Oliver Cromwell
The conquest of the earth, which mostly means the taking it away from those who have a different complexion or slightly flatter noses than ourselves, is not a pretty thing when you look into it too much. View quote
Joseph Conrad
So you shouldn't really flatter yourself that they want to be your buddy. They don't. Generally. They want you for some reason or other, and you just have to fend that off all the time. (Kurt Loder)
Let those flatter, who fear: it is not an American art. View quote
Thomas Jefferson
Among the many strange servilities mistaken for pieties, one of the least lovely is that which hopes to flatter God by despising the world, and vilifying human nature. View quote
George Henry Lewes
It would be a piece of ingenuousness to accuse the man of today of his lack of moral code. The accusation would leave him cold, or rather, would flatter him. Immoralism has become a commonplace, and anybody and everybody boasts of practising it. View quote
José Ortega y Gasset
It's the best proposal that we ought to have because it's flatter, it's fairer, it's finite, it's family friendly. And instead, we've had a Congress that spent money like John Edwards at a beauty shop. View quote
Mike Huckabee
Evil men of every degree will use you, flatter you, lead you on until you are useless; then, if the virtuous do not pity you, or God compassionate, you are without a friend in the universe. View quote
Henry Ward Beecher
Let us take a patriot, where we can meet him; and, that we may not flatter ourselves by false appearances, distinguish those marks which are certain, from those which may deceive; for a man may have the external appearance of a patriot, without the constituent qualities; as false coins have often lustre, though they want weight. View quote
Samuel Johnson
The difference between me and Bono is that he's quite happy to go and flatter people to get what he wants and he's very good at it, but I just can't do it. I'd probably end up punching them in the face rather than shaking their hand, so it's best that I stay out of their way. I can't engage with that level of bullshit. Which is a shame, really, and in a way it would help if I could, but I just can't. I admire the fact that Bono can, and can walk away from it smelling of roses. View quote
Thom Yorke
If we did not flatter ourselves, the flattery of others could never harm us. View quote
François de La Rochefoucauld
A good historian is timeless; although he is a patriot, he will never flatter his country in any respect. View quote
François Fénelon
Power is so pleasant that men quickly learn to be greedy in the enjoyment of it, and to flatter themselves that patriotism requires them to be imperious. (Anthony Trollope)
Bosh. I find a rival - but no, I won't flatter myself that Tecumseh Fox would consider himself a rival of Dol Bonner - I find an eminent detective in your apartment, and that alone is enough, without adding that he is concealed in your bedroom while I am discussing my business with you... View quote
Rex Stout
To flatter and follow others, without being flattered and followed in turn, is but a state of half enjoyment. View quote
Jane Austen
The vices of which we are full we carefully hide from others, and we flatter ourselves with the notion that they are small and trivial; we sometimes even embrace them as virtues. View quote
John Calvin
We are so concerned to flatter the majority that we lose sight of how very often it is necessary, in order to preserve freedom for the minority, let alone for the individual, to face that majority down. View quote
William F. Buckley