Top 19 Ingratiating Quotes

#1. The light of his plural pronoun was sufficiently reflected in his companion's face as he again met it; and he completed his demonstration.

Henry James

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#2. There are few things that we so unwillingly give up, even in advanced age, as the supposition that we still have the power of ingratiating ourselves with the fair sex.

Samuel Johnson

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#3. It's not always the things we do that make the biggest difference in our lives; it's often the things we avoid doing that have the biggest effect.

Paul Hudson

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#4. Orwell's '1984' convinced me, rightly or wrongly, that Marxism was only a quantum leap away from tyranny. By contrast, Huxley's 'Brave New World' suggested that the totalitarian systems of the future might be subservient and ingratiating.

J.G. Ballard

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#5. Clever how the cosmos can, in a single portent, be ingratiating yet sadistic.

Julia Glass

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#6. Jason McDermott can be the most ingratiating young man: a born politician.

Bill Dedman

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#7. Do we substantially increase military spending and prepare for endless war in the middle-east, or do we make college affordable for all Americans, regardless of income. My answer: I will soon be introducing legislation that will make public colleges and universities tuition free.

Bernie Sanders

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#8. I had a good mind to discontinue permanently the supply of grain to the city, reliance on which had discouraged Italian agriculture, but refrained because some politician would be bound one day to revive the dole as a means of ingratiating himself with the people.

Augustus

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#9. A Company should be viewed as an unfolding movie, not as a still photograph

Warren Buffett

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#10. Love is blind but not deaf.

Gilbert Adair

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#11. The Master said: 'Artful speech and an ingratiating demeanour rarely accompany virtue.

Confucius

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#12. You can't be up the reader's ass, as many a writer I think is - cute as hell, ingratiating as hell. But that's not loving the reader in the right way. That's toadying to the reader.

Martin Amis

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#13. The fact which interests us most is the life of the naturalist. The purest science is still biographical. Nothing will dignify and elevate science while it is sundered so wholly from the moral life of its devotee.

Henry David Thoreau

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#14. Category:
Inner-space fiction
For there is never anywhere to go but in.

Doris Lessing

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#15. I tend to be the type who is overly polite and sort of ingratiating to other people.

Daniel Clowes

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#16. Clever talk, ingratiating looks, fawning reverence: Tso-ch'iu Ming found that shameful, and so do I. Friendly while harboring resentment: Tso-ch'iu Ming found that shameful, too, and so do I.

Confucius

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#17. Honesty is seldom ingratiating and often discomfiting.

Tom Stoppard

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#18. Mr. Greer timed all our speeches with an oven timer. Things were nothing at Tribeca Alternative, considered one of Manhattan's finest prep schools, if not high tech.

Meg Cabot

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#19. Probably the biggest temptation that young writers face is to be entertaining, to show your bag of tricks and do a bit of tap dancing. I read a lot of things, and I keep seeing this brocade of voice where someone is trying to be too pally with you or ingratiating on the page.

Teju Cole

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