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43 quotesBetween flattery and admiration there often flows a river of contempt.
Flattery
Minna Antrim
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Ask counsel of both timesof the ancient time what is best, and of the latter time what is fittest.
Uncategorised
Francis Bacon
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Never let your zeal outrun your charity. The former is but human, the latter is divine.
Zeal
Hosea Ballou
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Fortune cannot be flattered by such fetish worship. But she can be wooed and won by hard work.
Luck
Lord Beaverbrook
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Flattery is a form of hatred.
Flattery
Bible
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Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt, not swallowed.
Flattery
Josh Billings
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The flattery of posterity is not worth much more than contemporary flattery, which is worth nothing.
Posterity
Jorge Luis Borges
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Listening, not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery.
Listening
Dr. Joyce Brothers
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A fool flatters himself, a wise man flatters the fool.
Flattery
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
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Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.
Flattery
Edmund Burke
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To a poet, silence is an acceptable response, even a flattering one.
Poetry and Poets
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
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Everyone likes flattery; and when you come to Royalty you should lay it on with a trowel.
Royalty
Benjamin Disraeli
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I am I plus my surroundings and if I do not preserve the latter, I do not preserve myself.
Environmentalism
Jose Ortega Y Gasset
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The ambitious are forever followed by adulation for they receive the most pleasure from flattery.
Ambition
Oliver Goldsmith
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He that flatters you more than you desire either has deceived you or wishes to deceive.
Flattery
Italian Proverb
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Just praise is only a debt, but flattery is a present.
Flattery
Samuel Johnson
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Don't flatter the rich, or appear to willing before the great.
Flattery
Thomas Kempis
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Every flatterer lives at the expense of him who listens to him.
Flattery
Jean De La Fontaine
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Self-love is the greatest of all flatterers.
Flattery
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
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Poets and heroes are of the same race, the latter do what the former conceive.
Poetry and Poets
Alphonse De Lamartine
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Faith is different from proof; the latter is human, the former is a Gift from God.
Faith
Blaise Pascal
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Cares are often more difficult to throw off than sorrows; the latter die with time, the former grow.
Sorrow
Jean Paul
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Many know how to flatter, few know how to praise.
Praise
Wendell Phillips
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When the strong box contains no more both friends and flatterers shun the door.
Money
Plutarch
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If we did not flatter ourselves the flattery from others would not harm us.
Flattery
Proverb
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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun