Top 60 Quotes About Self Flattery
#1. Hypocrisy can plunge the mind of a man into a dark abyss, when he believes his own self-flattery instead of God's verdict.
John Calvin
#2. Direct, forceful, energetic. Loves power, eats up publicity and flattery ... Can turn on charm at will and knows it.
Joseph Stilwell
#3. Love of another is merely empty flattery and self-deception for one who cannot accept himself without pretense.
L.E. Modesitt Jr.
#4. Imitation is the highest from of flattery. Until it isn't.
Em Bailey
#6. Because nothing says flattery like a gun to the head.
Jim Butcher
#7. Praise a stranger with a few nice words and he becomes a stranger that calls you a friend.
Simon Cowell
#8. Most sound minds resent flattery, because they see the egotism behind the screen of altruism.
Fulton J. Sheen
#9. I hate careless flattery, the kind that exhausts you in your efforts to believe it.
Wilson Mizner
#10. Always try to grow in your garden some plant or plants out of the ordinary, something your neighbors never attempted. For you can receive no greater flattery than to have a gardener of equal intelligence stand before your plant and ask, "What is that?"
Richardson Wright
#11. 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
#12. Sure flattery never traveled so far as three thousand miles; it is now only for truth, which over takes all things, to reach you at this distance.
Alexander Pope
#13. Your flattery is as full of contempt as your insults were.
Mason Cooley
#14. There's a certain balance between finding an opportunity to do what you really enjoy and getting caught up in the flattery of people wanting you to do things.
Jim Gaffigan
#16. In my experience, there are two things that no one will admit to: having no sense of humor and being susceptible to flattery.
Margaret George
#17. Let me see the truth. Never let flattery or hatred blind me. This is my life and I will live it wisely. For me.
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#18. Don't flatter the rich, or appear to willing before the great.
Thomas A Kempis
#19. When a woman has not received much flattery in her life, she will be seduced.
Melina Marchetta
#20. To flatter a young man, tell him that you thought that he was older than he is. To flatter an old woman, tell her that you thought that she was younger than she is.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
#21. 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
#22. Though it is a painful fact that most Negroes are hopelessly docile, many of them are filled with fury, and the unctuous coating of flattery which surrounds and encases that fury is but a form of self-preservation.
William Styron
#23. No one ever told me I was pretty when I was a little girl. All little girls should be told they're pretty, even if they aren't.
Marilyn Monroe
#24. I become quite melancholy and deeply grieved to see men behave to each other as they do. Everywhere I find nothing but base flattery, injustice , self-interest, deceit and roguery. I cannot bear it any longer; I'm furious; and my intention is to break with all mankind.
Moliere
#25. Flattery from a man who displayed no common sense or self-control, much less reverence for God, meant nothing to him. I
Lynn Austin
#26. Flatterers should be mistrusted, especially when they praise the dead. To seek a place in society is self-serving, but to seek one in history affects everyone.
Bauvard
#27. Projecting yourself until everything is talking about you is, of course, a self-flattering form of self-pity
Aleksandar Hemon
#28. You can receive all the compliments in the world, but that won't do a thing unless you believe it yourself.
Criss Jami
#29. for self-love is no more than the soothing of a man's self, which, done to another, is flattery. And
Erasmus
#30. Confidence, as opposed, to modesty and distinguished from decent assurance, proceeds from self-opinion, and is occasioned by ignorance and flattery.
Jeremy Collier
#31. When they talk of building self-esteem, they often resort to empty flattery rather than character-building honesty. I've heard so many people talk of downward spiral in our educational system, and I think one key factor is that there is too much stroking and too littke real feedback.
Randy Pausch
#32. Money can buy a house, but not a home; a bed, but not rest; food, but not an appetite; medicine, but not health; information, but not wisdom; thrills, but not joy; associates, but not friends; servants, but not loyalty; flattery, but not respect.
Pat Williams
#33. 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
#34. Nothing in the world is harder than speaking the truth and nothing easier than flattery.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#37. But even this piece of flattery couldn't distract me from the fact that I was in the center of the Fae realm, blind, stark naked, and without the slightest idea of what was going on.
Patrick Rothfuss
#38. Everyone likes flattery; and when you come to Royalty you should lay it on with a trowel.
Benjamin Disraeli
#41. No flattery can heal a bad conscience, so no slander can hurt a good one.
Thomas Watson
#42. Slander, in the strict meaning of the term, comes under the head of lying; but it is a kind of lying which, like its antithesis flattery, ought to be set apart for special censure.
Washington Gladden
#43. Every man kills the things that he loves. Some with a look, some with flattery, the coward with a kiss.
Eric Jerome Dickey
#44. There is no food more satiating than milk and honey; and just as such foods produce disgust for the palate, so perfumed and gallant words make our ears belch.
Pietro Aretino
#45. Being told that he was immune to flattery was the nicest thing he had heard someone say about him in a long time.
John C. Wright
#47. Cooking is a form of flattery ... a mischievous, deceitful, mean and ignoble activity, which cheats us by shapes and colors, by smoothing and draping ...
Plato
#48. Flattery," Wendy told him, "is when your daddy says he likes my new yellow slacks even if he doesn't or when he says I don't need to take off five pounds." "Oh. Is it lying for fun?
Stephen King
#50. As long as matters are really hopeful," wrote Chesterton, "hope is mere flattery or platitude. It is only when everything is hopeless that hope begins to be a strength at all. Like all the Christian virtues, it is as unreasonable as it is indispensable.
Eugene H. Peterson
#51. Fearing no insult, asking for no crown, receive with indifference both flattery and slander, and do not argue with a fool.
Alexander Pushkin
#52. Don't be difficult, Denys," Nell chided. "All women like a little flattery from time to time." "What if they didn't? What if they simply liked themselves and no one needed to bend backwards to flatter them? Wouldn't it all be simpler then?
Paula McLain
#53. I'm good at the real and the true and the beautiful and can do With some skill and With or without flattery the Place where all 3 meet ...
Ali Smith
#54. Am I the only person in the world who is shocked and amazed at the ongoing flattery of uebergeek Mark Zuckerberg?
Tom Hodgkinson
#55. Nine times out of 10, the most charming thing to say in any given situation will be the exact opposite of what one really feels.
Geoff Dyer
#56. The world is a king, and like a king, desires flattery in return for favor; but true art is selfish and perverse - it will not submit to the mold of flattery.
Ludwig Van Beethoven
#57. Feel you the barren flattery of a rhyme?
Can poets soothe you, when you pine for bread,
By winding myrtle round your ruin'd shed?
George Crabbe
#58. I live on shameless flattery ... and vodka ... but the two usually go hand in hand.
Vicktor Alexander
#59. Katherine Kenton remains among the generation of women who feel that the most sincere form of flattery is the male erection.
Chuck Palahniuk
#60. Daughter of Bast, she replied, with a little bow. Cats liked to be reminded that they had once been worshiped. They pretended that they didn't, that they were above flattery, but of course, that only meant that they were all the more susceptible to it.
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