A Quote by Jonathan Swift

Nothing is so great an example of bad manners as flattery. If you flatter all the company, you please none; If you flatter only one or two, you offend the rest.

Jonathan Swift

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Jonathan Swift
Irish - Writer
November 30, 1667 - October 19, 1745

Everything Trump said and did was framed in a way to flatter him, and more importantly, flatter his worldview.

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A dog will flatter you but you have to flatter the cat.

George Mikes

If imitation is the greatest form of flattery, Punk, don't flatter me.

J-Ro

Flattery is so necessary to us that we flatter one another just to be flattered in return.

Marjorie Bowen

If we did not flatter ourselves, the flattery of others could never harm us.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

I don't call you handsome, sir, though I love you most dearly: far too dearly to flatter you. Don't flatter me.

Charlotte Bronte

We sometimes think that we hate flattery, but we only hate the manner in which it is done. [Fr., On croit quelquefoir hair la flatterie; maid on ne hait que a maniere de flatter.]

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Flatter me, but delicately, please, for I am fastidious.

Mason Cooley

No man of high and generous spirit is ever willing to indulge in flattery; the good may feel affection for others, but will not flatter them.

Aristotle

The rich man despises those who flatter him too much, and hates those who do not flatter him at all.

Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

I don't like writing for myself to sing. I prefer to have other people's voices to dispose of in some way that they'll like or not like or flatter them or not flatter them. It's fun.

Matthew Friedberger

Nothing is so great an instance of ill-manners as flattery.

Jonathan Swift

Madam, before you flatter a man so grossly to his face, you should consider whether or not your flattery is worth his having.

Samuel Johnson

Compliments and flattery oftenest excite my contempt by the pretension they imply; for who is he that assumes to flatter me? To compliment often implies an assumption of superiority in the complimenter. It is, in fact, a subtle detraction.

Henry David Thoreau

Never permit yourself to indulge in cheap flattery, which often times means to merely satisfy the individuals vanity and sometimes to ingratiate the flatter into the good graces of the flattered.

Harold B. Lee

They do not abuse the king that flatter him. For flattery is the bellows blows up sin; The thing the which is flattered, but a spark To which that blast gives heat and stronger glowing.

William Shakespeare

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