A Quote by Abraham Lincoln

Knavery and flattery are blood relations.

Abraham Lincoln

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Abraham Lincoln
American - President
February 12, 1809 - April 15, 1865

Cunning leads to knavery. It is but a step from one to the other, and that very slippery. Only lying makes the difference; add that to cunning, and it is knavery.

Ovid

Knavery is ever suspicious of knavery.

Joseph Addison

Whatever may be said as to our relations to some other countries, I think the relations of this country to Spain offer no ties of gratitude or of blood.

Henry Cabot Lodge

Sheer flattery got me into the theater. Flattery always works with me, particularly the flattery of women.

Carroll O'Connor

In the best, the friendliest and simplest relations flattery or praise is necessary, just as grease is necessary to keep wheels turning.

Leo Tolstoy

We don't have to have blood relations in order to be brothers and sisters. Flesh and blood, those are just things that we're made of. In a real family, what matters is our hearts. We care, show concern and love. Anyone can be family too.

Kim Da-hyun

An Albanian’s house is the dwelling of God and the guest.’ Of God and the guest, you see. So before it is the house of its master, it is the house of one’s guest. The guest, in an Albanian’s life, represents the supreme ethical category, more important than blood relations. One may pardon the man who spills the blood of one’s father or of one’s son, but never the blood of a guest.

Ismail Kadare

Baloney is flattery laid on so thick it cannot be true, and blarney is flattery so thin we love it.

Fulton J. Sheen

flattery would be worse than vain; there is no consolation in flattery.

Charlotte Bronte

Complimenting someone in an exaggerated way is known as flattery, and flattery will generally get you anything you want.

Daniel Handler

If solitude deprives of the benefit of advice, it also excludes from the mischief of flattery. But the absence of others' applause is generally supplied by the flattery of one's own breast.

William Benton Clulow

We must define flattery and praise; they are distinct. Trajan was encouraged to virtue by the panegyric Pliny; Tiberius became obstinate in vice from the flattery of his senators.

Louis XVI of France

Freindshipp is beyond all relations of flesh and blood, because it is less materiall.

John Evelyn

The flattery of posterity is not worth much more than contemporary flattery, which is worth nothing.

Jorge Luis Borges

The world is a king, and like a king, desires flattery in return for favor; but true art is selfish and perverse — it will not submit to the mold of flattery.