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Flattery is like friendship in show, but not in fruit

Flattery is like friendship in show, but not in fruit

by Socrates Found in: Flattery Quotes,
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I can spot empty flattery and know exactly where I stand. In the end it's really only my own approval read more

I can spot empty flattery and know exactly where I stand. In the end it's really only my own approval or disapproval that means anything.

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It is better to fall among crows than flatterers; for those devour only the dead--these the living.

It is better to fall among crows than flatterers; for those devour only the dead--these the living.

by Antisthenes Found in: Flattery Quotes,
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If you can't love, learn how to flatter.

If you can't love, learn how to flatter.

by Anonymous Found in: Flattery Quotes,
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Nature has hardly formed a woman ugly enough to be insensible to flattery upon her person.

Nature has hardly formed a woman ugly enough to be insensible to flattery upon her person.

by Lord Chesterfield Found in: Flattery Quotes,
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When Fortune flatters, she does it to betray.

When Fortune flatters, she does it to betray.

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It has been well said that "the arch-flatterer with whom all the
petty flatterers have intelligence is a man's read more

It has been well said that "the arch-flatterer with whom all the
petty flatterers have intelligence is a man's self."

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Let us be thankful for the fools; but for them the rest of us could not succeed.

Let us be thankful for the fools; but for them the rest of us could not succeed.

by Mark Twain Found in: Flattery Quotes,
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The skilful class of flatterers praise the discourse of an
ignorant friend and the face of a deformed one.
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The skilful class of flatterers praise the discourse of an
ignorant friend and the face of a deformed one.
[Lat., Adulandi gens prudentissima laudat
Sermonem indocti, faciem deformis amici.]

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