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Flattery Quotes (page 3)

We rightly scorn those who have no made use of their defects, who have not exploited their deficiencies, and have not been enriched by their losses, as we despise any man who does not suffer at being a man or simply at being. Hence no graver insult can be inflicted than to call someone 'happy', no greater flattery than to grant him a 'vein of melancholy'... This is because gaiety is link to no important action and because, except for the mad, no one laughs when he is alone. Emile M. Cioran
Leadership is not magnetic personality, that can just as well be a glib tongue. It is not "making friends and influencing people", that is flattery. Leadership is lifting a person's vision to higher sights, the raising of a person's performance to a higher standard, the building of a personality beyond its normal limitations. Peter Drucker
If you want to make an ordinary man happy, or think that he is happy, give him money, power, flattery, gifts, honours. If you want to make a wise man happy - improve yourself! Idries Shah
James Monroe quote: "A little flattery will support a man through great fatigue."
A little flattery will support a man through great fatigue. James Monroe
Imitation is the highest form of flattery, but clones kind of get it wrong because we are promoting individuality and being proud of being yourself. Brian Molko
Wilson Mizner quote: "I hate careless flattery, the kind that exhausts you in your..."
I hate careless flattery, the kind that exhausts you in your efforts to believe it. Wilson Mizner
The love of one's own sex is precious, for it is neither provoked by vanity nor retained by flattery; it is genuine and sincere. Maria Mitchell
Mahatma Gandhi quote: "Imitation is the sincerest flattery."
Imitation is the sincerest flattery. Mahatma Gandhi
Northrop Frye quote: "Advertising - a judicious mixture of flattery and threats."
Advertising - a judicious mixture of flattery and threats. Northrop Frye
Nothing is so great an example of bad manners as flattery. If you flatter all the company, you please none; If you flatter only one or two, you offend the rest. Jonathan Swift
Benjamin Disraeli quote: "Everyone likes flattery; and when you come to Royalty you..."
Everyone likes flattery; and when you come to Royalty you should lay it on with a trowel. Benjamin Disraeli
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. Agnetha Faltskog
This flattery has been rather slow in coming. I think all of sudden late in life now I'm getting some credit for what I've done. Which is gratifying, but it's kind of a little late. Jack Vance
Jack Paar quote: "Immigration is the sincerest form of flattery."
Immigration is the sincerest form of flattery. Jack Paar
Charles Caleb Colton quote: "Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery."
Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. Charles Caleb Colton

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