| |  | | | | | | | | | | | 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 | | | Everyone likes flattery, and when you come to Royalty, you should lay it on with a thick trowel | | Benjamin Disraeli | | | | | | | | | | | | | Flattery is from the teeth out. Sincere appreciation is from the heart out. | | Dale Carnegie | | | Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt of, not swallowed | | Josh Billings | | | Flattery is like friendship in show, but not in fruit | | Socrates | | | Flattery is telling the other person precisely what he thinks about himself | | Dale Carnegie | | | Flattery is the worst and falsest way of showing our esteem | | Jonathan Swift | | | I once had a rose named after me and I was very flattered. But I was not pleased to read the description in the catalogue: no good in a bed, but fine up against a wall. | | Eleanor Roosevelt | | | | | | | What signifies protesting so against flattery! when a person speaks well of one, it must either be true or false, you know; if true, let us rejoice in his good opinion; if he lies, it is a proof at least that he loves more to please me, than to sit s | | Samuel Johnson | | | | | Quotes: 1 - 16 of 16 | Pages: 1 | | | |
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