Quotes Tagged With :flatter

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

I become quite melancholy and deeply grieved to see men behave to each other as they do. Everywhere I....

But unlike Jack, Bobby had not been groomed to be a candidate, and he was constitutionally incapable....

A man that flattereth his neighbor spreadeth a net for his feet.

In every reign there comes one night of greatest blackness, when a King must send away his court of flatterers....

The meanest most contemptible kind of praise is that which first speaks well of a man and then qualifies....

I cannot encourage any fabrication even for the sake of making people feel good. If I were to fabricate....

I'll read enoughWhen I do see the very book indeedWhere all my sins are writ, and that's myself.Give....

To flatter a young man, tell him that you thought that he was older than he is. To flatter an old woman,....

People don't care about being duped as long as they're happy, which is the shortest form of happiness;....