A Quote by Bill Vaughan

Flattery, if judiciously administered, is always acceptable, however much we may despise the flatterer.

Bill Vaughan

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Bill Vaughan
American - Journalist
October 8, 1915 - February 25, 1977

Flattery, if judiciously administered, is always acceptable.

Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington

There is scarcely any man, how much soever he may despise the character of a flatterer, but will condescend in the meanest manner to flatter himself.

Henry Fielding

One may define flattery as a base companionship which is most advantageous to the flatterer.

Theophrastus

Some indeed there are who profess to despise all flattery, but even these are nevertheless to be flattered, by being told that they do despise it.

Charles Caleb Colton

Flattery leads to vulgarity; the flatterer is despised.

Nachman of Breslov

One of the most difficult tasks men can perform, however much others may despise it, is the invention of good games.

Carl Jung

Flattery pleases very generally. In the first place, the flatterer may think what he says to be true; but, in the second place, whether he thinks so or not, he certainly thinks those whom he flatters of consequence enough to be flattered.

Samuel Johnson

Blinded as they are to their true character by self-love, every man is his own first and chiefest flatterer, prepared, therefore, to welcome the flatterer from the outside, who only comes confirming the verdict of the flatterer within.

Plutarch

I could go on a long rant about how much I despise e-mail. I wish it was more socially acceptable to ignore people.

Steve Huffman

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

Carroll O'Connor

However steep or ramshackle they may be, don't ever despise the stairs which take you up to higher levels!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

There is no such thing as an acceptable level of unemployment, because hunger is not acceptable, poverty is not acceptable, poor health is not acceptable, and a ruined life is not acceptable.

Hubert H. Humphrey

Never to despise in myself what I have been taught to despise. Nor to despise the other. Not to despise the it. To make this relation with the it: to know that I am it.

Muriel Rukeyser

The real essence of any marriage that has struggled, however unsuccessfully, towards happiness, lies in the growth of a wordless understanding that what is acceptable to one partner will be acceptable to the other.

Wallis Simpson

Prayer is always acceptable to God when dictated by the heart, for the intention is everything in his sight; and the prayer of the heart is preferable to one read from a book, however beautiful it may be, if read with the lips rather than with the thought.

Allan Kardec

Young children are unlikely to have their self-esteem strengthened from excessive praise or flattery. On the contrary, it may raise some doubts in children; many children can see through flattery and may even dismiss an adult who heaps on praise as a poor source of support-one who is not very believable.

Lilian Katz

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