(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
“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”
“I don't find offensive that I'm being labelled a babe by blokes. I'm absolutely flattered.”
Kirsty Gallacher
“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
“... while we flatter ourselves that things remain the same, they are changing under our very eyes from year to year, from day to day.”
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
“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
