Top 100 Flatter Quotes
#1. She forgot the three F's," Julia whispered to Sara Moulton: "Feed 'em, fuck 'em, and flatter 'em.
Noel Riley Fitch
#2. Seek but provision of bread and wine, fools to flatter, and clothing fine; and nothing of God shall ever be thine.
Wes Smith
#3. You must ingratiate yourself with those who can help you. Flatter them to their faces. Praise them to others who will carry your words back to them.
Chin-Ning Chu
#4. Who dreams of a son,
save one,
childless, having no bright
face to flatter its own,
who dreams of a son?
Hilda Doolittle
#5. Compliments and flattery oftenest excite my contempt by the pretension they imply; for who is he that assumes to flatter me? To compliment often implies an assumption of superiority in the complimenter. It is, in fact, a subtle detraction.
Henry David Thoreau
#6. Can't you just keep your big mouth shut?" Brian said furiously to Nan. He pointed to Chrestomanci. "How do we know he's safe? For all we know, he could be the devil that you summoned up!"
"Oh, you flatter me, Brian," Chrestomanci said.
Diana Wynne Jones
#8. The difference between slaves in Roman and Ottoman days and today's employees is that slaves did not need to flatter their boss.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
#9. Thus when we fondly flatter our desires, Our best conceits do prove the greatest liars.
Michael Drayton
#10. ...Thus have I had thee as a dream doth flatter: in sleep a king but waking no such matter.
William Shakespeare
#11. Flatter not thyself in thy faith to God, if thou wantest charity for thy neighbor; and think not thou halt charity for thy neighbor, if thou wantest faith to God; where they are not both together, they are both wanting; they are both dead, if once divided.
Francis Quarles
#12. Standing behind him until he turned his head. Lying next to him just before he woke up. Making everyone else seem drabber and flatter and never good enough. Eleanor ruining everything. Eleanor, gone
Rainbow Rowell
#13. Your writing voice is the deepest possible reflection of who you are. The job of your voice is not to seduce or flatter or make well-shaped sentences. In your voice, your readers should be able to hear the contents of your mind, your heart, your soul.
Meg Rosoff
#14. You are excused from doing the work of constructing the fantasy. The ads do it for you. The ads, therefore, don't flatter your adult agency, or even ignore it - they supplant it.
David Foster Wallace
#15. Look upon good books; they are true friends, that will neither flatter nor dissemble: be you but true to yourself...and you shall need no other comfort nor counsel.
Francis Bacon
#17. People generally despise where they flatter.
Aristotle.
#18. Worse there cannot be; a better, I believe, there may be, by giving energy to the capital and skill of the country to produce exports, by increasing which, alone, can we flatter ourselves with the prospect of finding employment for that part of our population now unemployed.
Joseph Hume
#19. Where Young must torture his invention To flatter knaves, or lose his pension.
Jonathan Swift
#20. You're insane." He smiled. "I love it when you try to flatter your way into my pants.
Suzanne Wright
#21. Steve Job's tombstone is flatter than anybody else's.
Niko Stoifberg
#22. It is simpler and easier to flatter people than to praise them.
Jean Paul
#23. Were I to flatter myself with the possibility of success in such combat, it would indeed be presumption.
Anna Seward
#24. He that is much flattered soon learns to flatter himself.
Samuel Johnson
#25. Do not ever fear your enemies, who attack you relentlessly,
But do ever be afraid of the friends who flatter you habitually.
[231] - 4 (Thoughts)
Munindra Misra
#26. I see. Because I'm not hideous, not a drunkard, and appear to bathe regularly, you picked me. How you flatter me.
Chris Karlsen
#27. Turn over that stone" - she pointed to a flint nearby - "and you will find a charlatan who will dazzle you with the favorable conjunction of Mercury and Venus, flatter your future, and sell you colored water for a gold piece. I can't be bothered with it. From me you get the actuality.
Ariana Franklin
#29. To make a man perfectly happy tell him he works too hard, that he spends too much money, that he is misunderstood or that he is different; none of this is necessarily complimentary, but it will flatter him infinitely more that merely telling him that he is brilliant, or noble, or wise, or good.
Helen Rowland
#30. Italian men are raised from birth to flatter females
Joss Stirling
#31. Republics are created by the virtue, public spirit, and intelligence of the citizens. They fall, when the wise are banished from the public councils, because they dare to be honest, and the profligate are rewarded, because they flatter the people, in order to betray them.
Joseph Story
#33. He did not flatter me. It was I who found his appreciation flattering.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#34. To flatter and follow others, without being flattered and followed in turn, is but a state of half enjoyment
Jane Austen
#35. A director's job is to make something happen and it doesn't happen by itself. So you wheedle, you cajole, you flatter people, you tell them what needs to be done. And if you don't bring a passion and an intensity to it, you shouldn't be doing it.
James Cameron
#36. I should be glad if I could flatter myself that I came as near the central idea of the occasion, in two hours, as you did in two minutes.
Edward Everett
#37. Music's golden tongue Flatter'd to tears this aged man and poor.
John Keats
#38. People must flatter their own eyes with their pathetic lives. The things I was saying followed logically the things that I had said before, yet bore no relation to what I was thinking and feeling.
Lyn Hejinian
#39. The fairytale is irresponsible; it is frankly imaginary, and its purpose is to gratify wishes, as a dream doth flatter.
Susanne Katherina Langer
#40. I have a little half-Asian butt, and the more I work out, the more I try to get it bigger, it's just going to get flatter and harder.
Chrissy Teigen
#41. Nevertheless the passions, whether violent or not, should never be so expressed as to reach the point of 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.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
#42. But I don't mean to flatter you: if you are cast in a different mould to the majority, it is no merit of yours: Nature did it.
Charlotte Bronte
#43. In politics, yesterday's lie is attacked only to flatter today's.
Jean Rostand
#44. Men despise one another and flatter one another; and men wish to raise themselves above one another, and crouch before one another.
Marcus Aurelius
#46. It blind - as is very proper for those who tackle a darkness. 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
Joseph Conrad
#47. The more we love someone, the less we flatter them; it is by excusing nothing that true love shows itself.
Moliere
#49. I'm a domna. I can smile at even the ugliest toad and flatter him on his perfectly placed warts.
Susan Dennard
#50. The language of judicial decision is mainly the language of logic. And the logical method and form flatter that longing for certainty and for repose which is in every human mind. But certainty generally is illusion, and repose is not the destiny of man.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
#51. jenna had felt sexy-funny, like lucille ball with flour streaks on her face, a crumb-covered apron that didn't exactly flatter her, and yet nick had kissed her like a prom king falling for the reinvented girl in a movie.
Emily Franklin
#52. It is not for minds like ours to give or to receive flatter; yet the praises of sincerity have ever been permitted to the voice of friendship
Lord Byron
#54. Although she was unenthusiastic about theology, she had long since realised that the real point of prayer was not to flatter those addressed; prayer was a form of meditation, she decided, and it did not detract from its efficacy that nobody was listening.
Alexander McCall Smith
#55. The bards sing of love, they celebrate slaughter, they extol kings and flatter queens, but were I a poet I would write in praise of friendship.
Bernard Cornwell
#56. The award of a pure gold medal for poetry would flatter the recipient unduly: no poem ever attains such carat purity.
Robert Graves
#57. I flatter myself [we] have in this country extinguished forever the ambitious hope of making laws for the human mind.
James Madison
#58. While we flatter ourselves that things remain the same, they are changing under our very eyes from year to year, from day to day.
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
#59. Most women wish to feel that their spirit has been violated. Do they not, indeed, flatter themselves on never yielding save to force?
Honore De Balzac
#60. You, and rule!" she said. "You don't rule, don't flatter yourself. You have only got more than your share of the money, and make people work for you for two pounds a week, or threaten them with starvation.
D.H. Lawrence
#61. Big food companies flatter us by telling us how busy we are and they simultaneously convince us that we are helpless. I am moderately busy, but not all that helpless. Neither are you.
Jennifer Reese
#62. The Gauls were endowed with all the advantages of art and nature; but as they wanted courage to defend them, they were justly condemned to obey, and even to flatter, the victorious Barbarians, by whose clemency they held their precarious fortunes and their lives.
Edward Gibbon
#63. Take no repulse, whatever she doth say; For 'get you gone,' she doth not mean 'away.' Flatter and praise, commend, extol their graces; Though ne'er so black, say they have angels' faces
William Shakespeare
#64. I want a warm and faithful friend, To cheer the adverse hour; Who ne'er to flatter will descend, Nor bend the knee to power,- A friend to chide me when I'm wrong, My inmost soul to see; And that my friendship prove as strong For him as his for me.
John Quincy Adams
#65. The salesmen bought me perfume and invited me to lunch. But they couldn't talk to me about why families of guajiros slept in the city's parks under flashing Coca-Cola signs. Those men only murmured sweet nonsense to me, trying in vain to flatter me.
Cristina Garcia
#66. [I]t would be a piece of ingenuousness to accuse the man of to-day 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.
Jose Ortega Y Gasset
#67. I see this evident, that we willingly accord to piety only the services that flatter our passions.
Michel De Montaigne
#68. Mr. Lely, I desire you would use all your skill to paint my picture truly 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.
Oliver Cromwell
#69. Friends humor and flatter us, they steal our time, they encourage our love of ease, they make us content with ourselves, they are the foes of our virtue and our glory.
John Lancaster Spalding
#70. We deceive and flatter no one by such delicate artificies as we do our own selves.
Arthur Schopenhauer
#71. I do not wish to flatter my townsmen, nor to be flattered by them, for that will not advance either of us.
Henry David Thoreau
#72. They say that if the Swiss had designed these mountains they'd be rather flatter.
Paul Theroux
#73. I had to give it him, to flatter and insult a woman in one propostition took talent.
Ilona Andrews
#74. I would warn my brethren and sisters to never flatter persons because of their ability; for they cannot bear it. Self is easily exalted, and in consequence, persons lose their balance.
Ellen G. White
#75. I regret the way that America has elected to make films for its bluntest section of society and in ways that flatter them, and we have to recognize how much that is being done for money. We have to find another way of measuring ourselves. And film is one of the few ways that might be done.
Edward Jay Epstein
#76. It is politics to please and hoodwink those
Who flatter but despise us.
Thiruvalluvar
#77. I cannot stand the company of men. They flatter or they judge. I can stand neither of the two.
Albert Camus
#78. The society of dead authors has this advantage over that of the living: they never flatter us to our faces, nor slander us behind our backs, nor intrude upon our privacy, nor quit their shelves until we take them down.
Charles Caleb Colton
#79. From the very first I took a firm and rooted dislike to him, and I flatter myself that my first judgments are usually fairly shrewd.
Agatha Christie
#80. Beware of feedback from friends whose judgments could be tainted by feelings of envy or the need to flatter.
Curtis Jackson
#81. Madam, you flatter yourself. I do not want to marry you or anyone else. I am not a marrying man. - Rhett Butler
Margaret Mitchell
#82. An old philosopher said to Monsieur Coignard, a Reverend Father: 'You are a pig!' To which Abad Coignard answered: 'You flatter me, sir. But unfortunately, I'm only a man.'
Anatole France
#83. I need not hate any man; he cannot hurt me. I need not flatter any man; he has nothing to give me.
Virginia Woolf
#84. 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
#85. If any man flatters me, I'll flatter him again; tho' he were my best Friend.
Benjamin Franklin
#86. To me, there are four F's in a good tax system: it ought to be flatter, fairer, finite and family-friendly.
Mike Huckabee
#87. 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.]
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
#88. You would say you don't see it: at least I flatter myself I read as much in your eye (beware, by-the-by, what you express with that organ, I am quick at interpreting its language).
Charlotte Bronte
#89. And wrinkles, the damned democrats, won't flatter.
Lord Byron
#90. Illusions may flatter us, confuse us, or betray us, Drakkonwehr. Or they may be images we cling to when the truth is too difficult to face.
Helen C. Johannes
#91. 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.
Elizabeth Gaskell
#92. The Scripture stories do not, like Homer's, court our favor, they do not flatter us that they may please us and enchant us - they seek to subject us, and if we refuse to be subjected we are rebels.
Erich Auerbach
#94. Her Majesty's government is engaging not merely in Orwellian Newspeak but in self-defeating Orwellian Newspeak. The broader message it sends is that ours is a weak culture so unconfident and insecure that if you bomb us and kill us our first urge is to find a way to flatter and apologize to you.
Mark Steyn
#95. No man of high and generous spirit is ever willing to indulge in flattery; the good may feel affection for others, but will not flatter them.
Aristotle.
#96. The more we love our friends, the less we flatter them; it is by excusing nothing that pure love shows itself.
Moliere
#97. A king is a mortal god on earth, unto whom the living God hath lent his own name as a great honour; but withal told him, he should die like a man, lest he should be proud, and flatter himself that God hath with his name imparted unto him his nature also.
John Locke
#98. A truly scientific philosophy will be more humble, more piecemeal, more arduous, offering less glitter of outward mirage to flatter fallacious hopes, but more indifferent to fate, and more capable of accepting the world without the tyrannous imposition of our human and temporary demands.
Bertrand Russell
#99. People flatter us because they can depend upon our credulity.
Tacitus
#100. Taxes should be lower, flatter, and simpler, in that order.
David Boaz
