Love Flattery Quotes

#1. You think I love flattery (says Dr. Johnson), and so I do; but a little too much always disgusts me: that fellow Richardson, on the contrary, could not be contented to sail quietly down the stream of reputation, without longing to taste the froth from every stroke of the oar.

Samuel Johnson

#2. We love flattery, even though we are not deceived by it, because it shows that we are of importance enough to be courted.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#3. Life is a bowl of cherrys, but sometimes there is a pit or two.

Victoria Lane

#4. The love of one's own sex is precious, for it is neither provoked by vanity nor retained by flattery; it is genuine and sincere.

Maria Mitchell

#5. You can receive all the compliments in the world, but that won't do a thing unless you believe it yourself.

Criss Jami

#6. The difference between poetry and rhetoric
is being ready to kill
yourself
instead of your children.

Audre Lorde

#7. I never paid you a compliment, Rachel, in my life. Successful love may sometimes use the language of flattery, I admit. But hopeless love, dearest, always speaks the truth.

Wilkie Collins

#8. herding cats and shoveling smoke.

Eric Metaxas

#9. We have lost the old love of work, of work which kept itself company, which was fair weather and music in the heart, which found its reward in the doing, craving neither the flattery of vulgar eyes nor the gold of vulgar men.

John Lancaster Spalding

#10. 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

#11. Nothing like a bit of flattery to grease the wheels.

Lindsey Kelk

#12. Among all the diseases of the mind there is not one more epidemical or more pernicious than the love of flattery.

Richard Steele

#13. A woman's flattery may inflate a man's head a little; but her criticism goes straight to his heart, and contracts it so that it can never again hold quite as much love for her.

Helen Rowland

#14. A man that does not love praise is not a full man.

Henry Ward Beecher

#15. I love Wiz Khalifa.

Taylor Swift

#16. for self-love is no more than the soothing of a man's self, which, done to another, is flattery. And

Erasmus

#17. True love is mixed up with birdlike squabbles, in which the disputants wound each other to the quick; but a quarrel without animus is, on the contrary, apiece of flattery to the dupe's conceit.

Honore De Balzac

#18. I keep expectations so embarrassingly low that I broke my contract and went and got a hair-cut.

Cristin Milioti

#19. The high point of your life was when you knocked me down

Nancy Farmer

#20. The heart of a woman is never so full of affection that there does not remain a little corner for flattery and love.

Pierre De Marivaux

#21. Flattery does not encourage the perfect flow of love in the vein of your relationship. Be genuine and speak out what you feel for each other without hiding the painful truth.

Michael Bassey

#22. Artemisia maintained a reserved silence for as long as she could, but by the time they entered the tranquillity of the park her amicability had reasserted itself. Besides, she concluded that there was no point in ignoring a person when they were so obtuse as to not realise they were being ignored.

D.G. Rampton

#23. When a thing is not done, continuing to work is the strength; but when it is done, the strength lies in stopping.

Eric Maisel

#24. A sweet soul will take you further than a sweet tongue.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#25. When one looks truly at the good side of everyone, others come to love him very naturally, and he does not need even a speck of flattery.

Abraham Isaac Kook

#26. Oh, flatter me; for love delights in praises.

William Shakespeare

#27. O Beauty, find thyself in love, not in the flattery of thy mirror.

Rabindranath Tagore

#28. Humans, even nomadic ones, need a sense of home. Home need not be one place or any place at all, but every home has two essential elements: a sense of community and, even more important, a history.

Eric Weiner

#29. I think that there is a role for food to be art; and when food is art, it can have drama, it can have spectacle, it can be theatrical. It can be this amazing experience.

Nathan Myhrvold

#30. Love of another is merely empty flattery and self-deception for one who cannot accept himself without pretense.

L.E. Modesitt Jr.

#31. How empty are the insincere words of people who, so easily, speak forth "love," "family" and "friendship" without meaning what they say even if their intentions are good albeit mere flattery.

Donna Lynn Hope

#32. Direct, forceful, energetic. Loves power, eats up publicity and flattery ... Can turn on charm at will and knows it.

Joseph Stilwell

#33. Love of flattery, in most men, proceeds from the mean opinion they have of themselves; in women, from the contrary.

Jonathan Swift

#34. It's love that makes the world go round - otherwise it would be flat.

Jay Woodman

#35. For men and women alike, this journey is a the trajectory between birth and death, a human life lived. No one escapes the adventure. We only work with it differently.

Jon Kabat-Zinn

#36. What?" she asked.
"You're beautiful."
She rolled her eyes. "Flattery will get you laid."
"I sure hope so.

J. Lynn

#37. I believe that love
not imitation
is the sincerest form of flattery. Your imitator thinks that you can be duplicated; your lover knows you can't.

Marilyn Vos Savant

#38. Industry and institutes need to build smarter linkages.

Pallam Raju

#39. Baloney is flattery laid on so thick it cannot be true, and blarney is flattery so thin we love it.

Fulton J. Sheen

#40. Popular culture is a place where pity is called compassion, flattery is called love, propaganda is called knowledge, tension is called peace, gossip is called news, and auto-tune is called singing.

Criss Jami

#41. Money is the sincerest of all flattery. Women love to be flattered. So do men.

Robert A. Heinlein

#42. I still don't think I've ever read a Nancy Drew book; I probably read three or four 'Hardy Boys' books when I was 10, 11, 12, and I didn't love them at the time. Even then, they felt dated to me, like the word chum - 'my chum and I.' However, the 'Encyclopedia Brown' books, I read all of them.

Rob Thomas

#43. Now, as for this new breed of musicians with their 'ultrasonic' conservatory technique, I say: So What. Tell me a story from the heart of your soul and what your existence in this Universe is all about!

Woody Shaw

#44. I think it's just my nature. I can't work on one thing. I have to work on many things.

Robert Wilson