Quotes Tagged With :flatter

Wisdom is better than flattery, even if bitter in your ears.

When a woman has not received much flattery in her life, she will be seduced.

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

aphorism 129:I would have every thought stoop and touch the Earth but that I already know the impossibility....

It's pleasant to hear these nice words while I'm still alive. I'd rather have the taffy than the epitaphy.....

Self-praise is no recommendation.

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

The criminal (as slave) often seeks a person of great perfection (and here, as a judge of people's imperfection,....

I believe that love--not imitation--is the sincerest form of flattery. Your imitator thinks that you....

I can understand backward patriarchal reasoning coming from a male, but from a woman - and of all people,....