Quotes
Quotes about Flattery
None are more taken in with flattery than the proud, who wish to be the first and are not.
Just praise is only a debt, but flattery is a present.
Always let your flattery be seen through for what really flatters a man is that you think him worth flattering.
Flattery is from the teeth out. Sincere appreciation is from the heart out.
Knavery and flattery are blood relations.
Flattery looks like friendship, just like a wolf looks like a dog.
Imitation is the sincerest flattery.
Leadership is not magnetic personality â that can just as well be a glib tongue. It is not 'making friends and influencing people' â that is flattery. Leadership is lifting a person's vision to high sights, the raising of a person's performance to a higher standard, the building of a personality beyond its normal limitations.
Leadership is not magnetic personality-that can just as well be a glib tongue. It is not "making friends and influencing people"-that is flattery. Leadership is lifting a person's vision to higher sights, the raising of a person's performance to a higher standard, the building of a personality beyond its normal limitations. -Peter F. Drucker.
Listening, not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery. -Dr Joyce Brothers.
When will the public cease to insult the teacher's calling with empty flattery? When will men who would never for a moment encourage their own sons to enter the work of the public schools cease to tell us that education is the greatest and noblest of all human callings? - Craftmanship in Teaching.
Feel you the barren flattery of a rhyme? Can poets soothe you, when you pine for bread, By winding myrtle round your ruin'd shed?
He has been called a mediocre man; but this is unwarranted flattery. He was a politician of monumental littleness.
