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Flattery is all right if you don't inhale.
Flattery is all right if you don't inhale.
The best way to convince a fool that he is wrong is to let him have his own way.
The best way to convince a fool that he is wrong is to let him have his own way.
What really flatters a man is that you think him worth flattering.
What really flatters a man is that you think him worth flattering.
Flattery is like friendship in show, but not in fruit
Flattery is like friendship in show, but not in fruit
A woman's flattery may inflate a man's head a little; but her criticism goes straight to his heart, and contracts read more
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
It is easy to flatter; it is harder to praise.
It is easy to flatter; it is harder to praise.
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.
What really flatters a man is that you think him worth
flattering.
What really flatters a man is that you think him worth
flattering.
They who delight to be flattered, pay for their folly by a late
repentance.
[Lat., Qu se laudari read more
They who delight to be flattered, pay for their folly by a late
repentance.
[Lat., Qu se laudari gaudent verbis subdolis,
Sera dant peonas turpes poenitentia.]
