Top 22 False Flattery Quotes
#1. Sometimes I listen to them and sometimes I just watch the perfect line of Coin's hair and try to decide if it's a wig.
Suzanne Collins
#2. When you're appeasing too much, you might be egotistically over-estimating everyone's need for your approval.
Criss Jami
#3. Flee flattery, false praise and fair weather friends
Fraser Young
#4. We must be careful what we read, and not, like the sailors of Ulysses, take bags of wind for sacks of treasure.
John Lubbock
#5. Every child I know who overcame long odds and grew into a responsible adult can point to an adult who stepped into his or her life as a FRIEND, a MENTOR, and a GUIDE.
S. Truett Cathy
#6. America has made it very clear in several administrations that if there is an attack by China on Taiwan, the United States is very likely to resist.
Henry A. Kissinger
#7. My wife would say I'm not romantic at all, but I would say that I'm the ultimate romancer because I write about ... life being brilliant.
Noel Gallagher
#8. The Purpose of Philosophy is to fall in Love. To strip the world of all its clothes, and fall in Love with it as it stand before you completely naked.
Ilyas Kassam
#9. It is very normal for people on the ground to look at somebody apparently walking in midair and thinking first that person is crazy and thinking secondly that person risks his or her life.
Philippe Petit
#10. 'The Last Airbender' is genetically engineered for me. I love martial arts. I study it. The movie's based on a lot of Buddhist and Hindu philosophy. I was raised Hindu.
M. Night Shyamalan
#11. You will thank me one day for not filling your head with false compliments. Adversity teaches one more than flattery ever will.
Rachel E. Carter
#13. It's important to respect and exhaustively study the masters of music, but as you grow and develop it's important to use their discoveries, not as a final destination but as a catalyst for your original ideas.
Carl Orr
#14. They said that dying was just like going to sleep, although of course if you weren't careful bits of you could rot and drop off.
Terry Pratchett
#15. Your taste for abbreviation meant that instead of finishing the works you undertook, you finished yourself. You
Edouard Leve
#16. Therefore, have done with this nonsense: you have no ground for hope: dismiss, at once, these hurtful thoughts and foolish wishes from your mind, and turn to your own duty, and the dull blank life that lies before you. You might have known such happiness was not for you.
Anne Bronte
#17. What signifies protesting so against flattery when a person speaks well of one, it must either be true or false, you know if true, let us rejoice in his good opinion if he lies, it is a proof at least that he loves more to please me, than to sit s
Samuel Johnson
#18. Names and attributes must be accommodated to the essence of things, and not the essence to the names, since things come first and names afterwards.
Galileo Galilei
#19. He who commits his life to this son of man does not die, but he who does not commit his life to him destroys himself by not trusting to what is life itself Division (death) consists in this, that life came into the world, but men go away from that life.
Leo Tolstoy
#20. I wear my Pen as others do their Sword.
John Oldham
#21. Moreover, I have heard that those who are fond of praising men to their faces are also fond of damning them behind their backs.
Zhuangzi
#22. But unlike Jack, Bobby had not been groomed to be a candidate, and he was constitutionally incapable of the flattery and false praise with which politicians like Johnson got others to do their daily bidding.
Jonathan Darman
