| Author |
Quotes |
| Josh Billings | The best way to convince a fool that he is wrong is to let him have his own way. |
| Lord Chesterfield | Nature has hardly formed a woman ugly enough to be insensible to flattery upon her person. |
| Mae West | Flattery will get you everywhere. |
| Oliver Goldsmith | Of praise a mere glutton, he swallow'd what came, And the puff a dunce, he mistook it for fame; Till his relish grown callous, almost to displease, Who pepper'd the highest was surest to please. |
| Thomas Fuller | Fools grow without watering. |
| William Makepeace Thackeray | A fool can no more see his own folly than he can see his ears. |
| William Penn | To be a man's own fool is bad enough, but the vain man is everybody's. |
| William Penn | Avoid flatterers, for they are thieves in disguise. |
| Mark Twain | Let us be thankful for the fools, but for them the rest of us could not succeed. |
| Samuel Johnson | Just praise is only a debt, but flattery is a present. |
| William Shakespeare | Mine eyes Were not in fault, for she was beautiful, Mine ears, that heard her flattery, nor my heart, That thought her like her seeming. It had been vicious To have mistrusted her. |
| William Shakespeare | If he be so resolved, I can o'ersway him, for he loves to hear That unicorns may be betrayed with trees And bears with glasses, elephants with holes, Lions with toils, and men with flatterers, He says he does, being then most flattered. |
| William Shakespeare | By God, I cannot flatter, I do defy The tongues of soothers! but a braver place In my heart's love hath no man than yourself. Nay, task me to my word, approve me, lord. |
| William Shakespeare | What drink'st thou oft, instead of homage sweet, But poisoned flattery? |
| William Shakespeare | O that men's ears should be To counsel deaf but not to flattery! |
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