(95 quotes found)
“The heights of popularity and patriotism are still the beaten road to power and tyranny; flattery to treachery; standing armies to arbitrary government; and the glory of God to the temporal interest of the clergy.”
David Hume
“My passport photo is one of the most remarkable photographs I have ever seen - no retouching, no shadows, no flattery - just stark me”
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
“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
“Flattery is all right so long as you don't inhale.”
Adlai E. Stevenson
“Flattery - If you want to get to the top, prepare to kiss a lot of the bottom.”
Larry Kersten
“No matter what other nations may say about the United States, immigration is still the sincerest form of flattery.”
Clayton Cramer
“Imitation is the most serious form of flattery”
Proverb
“Knavery and flattery are blood relations.”
Abraham Lincoln
“A little flattery will support a man through great fatigue”
James Monroe
“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