A Quote by Alexander Pushkin

Fearing no insult, asking for no crown, receive with indifference both flattery and slander, and do not argue with a fool.

Alexander Pushkin

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Argue Asking Both Crown Flattery Fool Indifference Insult Receive Slander

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Alexander Pushkin
Russian - Novelist
June 6, 1799 - February 10, 1837

Let them push you, but do not push; Let them crucify you, but do not crucify. Let them insult, but do not insult. Let them slander, but do not slander. Be meek, and do not be zealous in evil.

Isaac of Nineveh

Asking a man if he could be trusted was like asking an unwed girl if she was a virgin. The question mattered, but the asking of it was gross insult.

Orson Scott Card

Then my father's features hardened. "You can't expect my blessings on this disastrous mistake." The words were directed at me, but Vlad responded. "I wouldn't insult you by asking. We both know you disapprove and we both know I don't care. Leila's opinion is the only one that matters, and she said yes.

Jeaniene Frost

Imitation is always insult--not flattery.

Frank Lloyd Wright

Flattery.... gets its kicks by flirting with insult and ridicule.

Willis Regier

If you argue with a fool, someone passing by will not be able to tell who is the fool and who is not.

Wilma Mankiller

If men of eminence are exposed to censure on one hand, they are as much liable to flattery on the other. If they receive reproaches which are not due to them, they likewise receive praises which they do not deserve.

Joseph Addison

Insult is powerful. Insult begets both rage and humor and often at the same time.

Suzanne Fields

There is no slander in an allowed fool, though he do nothing but rail.

William Shakespeare

only a fool would argue with a fool!

Eric Jerome Dickey

Slander, in the strict meaning of the term, comes under the head of lying; but it is a kind of lying which, like its antithesis flattery, ought to be set apart for special censure.

Washington Gladden

This crown to crown the laughing man, this rose-wreath crown: I myself have set this crown upon my head, I myself have pronounced my laughter holy.

Friedrich Nietzsche

The most subtle flattery that a woman can receive is by actions, not by words.

Suzanne Curchod

The ambitious are forever followed by adulation for they receive the most pleasure from flattery.

Oliver Goldsmith

Indifference elicits no response. Indifference is not a response. Indifference is not a beginning; it is an end. And, therefore, indifference is always the friend of the enemy, for it benefits the aggressor - never his victim, whose pain is magnified when he or she feels forgotten.