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Flatter not thyself in thy faith in God if thou hast not charity for thy neighbor.
— Francis Quarles
He did not flatter me. It was I who found his appreciation flattering.
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky
I'm a domna. I can smile at even the ugliest toad and flatter him on his perfectly placed warts.
— Susan Dennard
A flatterer never seems absurd: The flatter'd always takes his word.
— Benjamin Franklin
We are apt to be deluded into false security by political catch-words, devised to flatter rather than instruct.
— James A. Garfield
The difference between slaves in Roman and Ottoman days and today's employees is that slaves did not need to flatter their boss.
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
It's not a proper feedback if it's given to flatter and/or belittle someone. True feedback should be given to empower someone perform better.
— Assegid Habtewold
Beware of feedback from friends whose judgments could be tainted by feelings of envy or the need to flatter.
— Curtis Jackson
When in doubt, flatter the ego.
— Jessica Clare
Illusions may flatter us, confuse us, or betray us, Drakkonwehr. Or they may be images we cling to when the truth is too difficult to face.
— Helen C. Johannes
Blessed is he who has learned to admire but not envy, to follow but not imitate, to praise but not flatter, and to lead but not manipulate.
— William Arthur Ward
Don't flatter yourself. It's hard not to notice when fifty drunks are chanting your name.
— Jamie McGuire
Always here in summer when we want something to chill our intelligence. Don't flatter yourself,
— Oscar Wilde
Not all who discharge their debts of gratitude should flatter themselves that they are grateful.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
The award of a pure gold medal for poetry would flatter the recipient unduly: no poem ever attains such carat purity.
— Robert Graves
A dog will flatter you but you have to flatter the cat.
— George Mikes
I am afraid we are little better than straws upon the water; we may flatter ourselves that we swim, when the current carries us along.
— Mary Wortley Montagu
It's easier to flatter a man than fight him.
— Anne McCaffrey
To flatter and follow others, without being flattered and followed in turn, is but a state of half enjoyment
— Jane Austen
A good historian is timeless; although he is a patriot, he will never flatter his country in any respect.
— Francois Fenelon
If you see our best seller list, most of them are books that are given as gifts. They are books you give to flatter somebody.
— John Gimlette
Steve Job's tombstone is flatter than anybody else's.
— Niko Stoifberg
While we flatter ourselves that things remain the same, they are changing under our very eyes from year to year, from day to day.
— Charlotte Perkins Gilman
And wrinkles, the damned democrats, won't flatter.
— Lord Byron
Better not flatter if you ain't sincere.
— Toba Beta
Stannis had never learned to soften his speech, to dissemble or flatter; he said what he thought, and those that did not like it could be damned.
— George R R Martin
People generally despise where they flatter.
— Aristotle.
Flattery is so necessary to us that we flatter one another just to be flattered in return.
— Marjorie Bowen
The approval of a cat cannot but flatter the recipient.
— Elizabeth Peters
...Thus have I had thee as a dream doth flatter: in sleep a king but waking no such matter.
— William Shakespeare
Do not flatter yourselves: if you go to places of worship merely to look about you or to hear music, you are not worshipping God.
— Charles Spurgeon
If any man flatters me, I'll flatter him again; tho' he were my best Friend.
— Benjamin Franklin
He liked me because I am short. I flatter myself. He did not dislike me. He liked no one except Josephine and he liked her the way he liked chicken.
— Jeanette Winterson
All of us should be on guard against beliefs that flatter ourselves. At the very least, we should check such beliefs against facts.
— Thomas Sowell
From the very first I took a firm and rooted dislike to him, and I flatter myself that my first judgments are usually fairly shrewd.
— Agatha Christie
MAN: Kick him-he'll forgive you. Flatter him-he may or may not see through you. But ignore him and he'll hate you
— Idries Shah
Don't flatter yourself. You aren't my type.
— Tiffany Reisz
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I flatter myself [we] have in this country extinguished forever the ambitious hope of making laws for the human mind.
— James Madison
But I don't mean to flatter you: if you are cast in a different mould to the majority, it is no merit of yours: Nature did it.
— Charlotte Bronte
Flatter me, but delicately, please, for I am fastidious.
— Mason Cooley
A man needs a friend not to flatter him, but to strengthen him at his weak points.
— Edgar Watson Howe
If we did not flatter ourselves, the flattery of others could never harm us.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
You flatter me shamelessly. I like it. Good.
— Kenneth Oppel
Mankind naturally and generally love to be flatter'd.
— Benjamin Franklin
You can always draw as well as you know how to. I flatter myself that I feel more than I express on canvas; but I know that is not so.
— William Morris Hunt
I should be glad if I could flatter myself that I came as near the central idea of the occasion, in two hours, as you did in two minutes.
— Edward Everett
I see. Because I'm not hideous, not a drunkard, and appear to bathe regularly, you picked me. How you flatter me.
— Chris Karlsen
You will get the most attention from those who hate you. No friend, no admirer and no partner will flatter you with as much curiosity.
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
He who cannot love must learn to flatter.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Some men break your heart in two, Some men fawn and flatter, Some men never look at you; And that cleans up the matter.
— Dorothy Parker
The fairytale is irresponsible; it is frankly imaginary, and its purpose is to gratify wishes, as a dream doth flatter.
— Susanne Katherina Langer
You're insane." He smiled. "I love it when you try to flatter your way into my pants.
— Suzanne Wright
Do not flatter yourselves with the belief that a mere recital of that celebrated verse in St. John makes a man a Christian.
— Mahatma Gandhi
The customer is the immediate jewel of our souls. Him we flatter, him we feast, compliment, vote for, and will not contradict.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Men despise one another and flatter one another; and men wish to raise themselves above one another, and crouch before one another.
— Marcus Aurelius
The rich man despises those who flatter him too much, and hates those who do not flatter him at all.
— Charles Maurice De Talleyrand
Italian men are raised from birth to flatter females
— Joss Stirling
To me, there are four F's in a good tax system: it ought to be flatter, fairer, finite and family-friendly.
— Mike Huckabee
Critics kind never mind! Critics flatter no matter! Critics blame all the same! Do your best damn the rest!
— Arthur Conan Doyle
I see this evident, that we willingly accord to piety only the services that flatter our passions.
— Michel De Montaigne
Do not flatter yourself. You cannot tempt me.
— Franca Storm
Because all men are apt to flatter themselves, to entertain the addition of other men's praises is most perilous.
— Walter Raleigh
The praise we seek for our own virtues sometimes tempts us to flatter the imperfections of other men.
— Norm MacDonald
Were I to flatter myself with the possibility of success in such combat, it would indeed be presumption.
— Anna Seward
We deceive and flatter no one by such delicate artificies as we do our own selves.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
If you flatter yourself properly you will be better able to enjoy yourself. Stretch your joy so that others enjoy you too.
— Willis Regier
When your friends begin to flatter you on how young you look, it's a sure sign you're getting old.
— Mark Twain
Prince Vasili took the first opportunity to gain his confidence, flatter him, become intimate with him,
— Leo Tolstoy
Who dreams of a son,save one,
childless, having no bright
face to flatter its own,
who dreams of a son? — Hilda Doolittle
Emma knows I never flatter her,
— Jane Austen
Madam, before you flatter a man so grossly to his face, you should consider whether or not your flattery is worth his having.
— Samuel Johnson
The flatter the corporate hierarchy, the more likely it is that employees will communicate bad news and act upon it.
— Bill Gates
Most women wish to feel that their spirit has been violated. Do they not, indeed, flatter themselves on never yielding save to force?
— Honore De Balzac
No need to flatter me, Miss Price. I believe your bait worked. I'm hooked. Line and sinker.
— Fisher Amelie
If you flatter somebody it will go to their heads. If you love them it will go to their hearts.
— Donald Miller
The bards sing of love, they celebrate slaughter, they extol kings and flatter queens, but were I a poet I would write in praise of friendship.
— Bernard Cornwell
There is scarce any man, how much soever he may despise the character of a flatterer, but will condescend in the meanest manner to flatter himself
— Henry Fielding
I had to flatter them the whole evening to appease them; for old women must not be angered - they make young women's reputations.
— Pierre-Ambroise Choderlos De Laclos
