“Flatter me, and I may not believe you. Criticize me, and I may not like you. Ignore me, and I may not forgive you. Encourage me, and I will not forget you. Love me and I may be forced to love you.”
William Arthur Ward
“I'm not upset that you lied to me, I'm upset that from now on I can't believe you”
Friedrich Nietzsche
“A liar will not be believed, even when he speaks the truth.”
Aesop
“He that loves to be flattered is worthy o' the flatterer.”
William Shakespeare
“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”
“But when I tell him he hates flatterers, He says he does, being then most flattered”
“If we did not flatter ourselves, nobody else could”
Proverb
