He who would do good to another must do it in Minute Particulars. General Good is the plea of the scoundrel hypocrite and flatterer; For Art and Science cannot exist but in minutely organized particles.
There is no other way of guarding oneself against flattery than by letting men understand that they will not offend you by speaking the truth; but when everyone can tell you the truth you lose their respect.
Nothing is so great an instance of ill-manners as flattery. If you flatter all the company you please none; if you flatter only one or two you affront the rest.
Listening not imitation may be the sincerest form of flattery.
My passport photo is one of the most remarkable photographs I have ever seen — no retouching no shadows no flattery — just stark me.
It is better to fall among crows than flatterers; for those devour only the dead these the living.
Flattery is like cologne water to be smelt of not swallowed.
He who would do good to another must do it in Minute Particulars. General Good is the plea of the scoundrel hypocrite and flatterer; For Art and Science cannot exist but in minutely organized particles.
Never never never never give up.
We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter.
Madam before you flatter a man so grossly to his face you should consider whether or not your flattery is worth his having.
Flattery is counterfeit money which but for vanity would have no circulation.
It is possible to be below flattery as well as above it.
There is no other way of guarding oneself against flattery than by letting men understand that they will not offend you by speaking the truth; but when everyone can tell you the truth you lose their respect.
Get someone else to blow your horn and the sound will carry twice as far.
Flattery is all right if you dont inhale.
Nothing is so great an instance of ill-manners as flattery. If you flatter all the company you please none; if you flatter only one or two you affront the rest.