(108 quotes found)
“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
“Be advised that all flatterers live at the expense of those who listen to them.”
Jean de La Fontaine
“Patience is a flatterer, sir and an ass, sir”
Aphra Behn
“Of course I'm flattered to be compared to Pele, but Pele only left the playing fields after scoring 1,000 goals and I'm just getting started.”
Ronaldo
“He that would woo a maid must feign, lie and flatter, but he that woos a widow must down with his britches and at her”
Nathaniel Smith
“I don't find offensive that I'm being labelled a babe by blokes. I'm absolutely flattered.”
Kirsty Gallacher
“To me this world is all one continued vision of fancy or imagination, and I feel flattered when I am told so. What is it sets Homer, Virgil and Milton in so high a rank of art? Why is the Bible more entertaining and instructive than any other book? Is it not because they are addressed to the imagination, which is spiritual sensation, and but immediately to the understanding or reason?”
William Blake
“I always wear my sweater back-to-front; it is so much more flattering.”
Diana Vreeland
“I don't call you handsome, sir, though I love you most dearly: far too dearly to flatter you. Don't flatter me.”
Charlotte Bronte
“Every flatterer lives at the expense of him who listens to him.”
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