A Quote by Kin Hubbard

Flattery won't hurt you if you don't swallow it.

Kin Hubbard

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Kin Hubbard
American - Journalist
September 1, 1868 - December 26, 1930

Flattery is like chewing gum. Enjoy it but don't swallow it.

Hank Ketcham

Women have, in general, but ne object, which is their beauty; upon which, scarce any flattery is too gross for them to swallow.

Lord Chesterfield

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

Carroll O'Connor

Publicity is like poison; it doesn't hurt unless you swallow it.

Joe Paterno

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

There's two things that you don't listen to: flattery, which can't help you, and abuse, which can't hurt you. You have to look at the facts.

Jim Tressel

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

It is better to swallow a sheep or a goat than swallow what he has been swallowing.

Arjuna Ranatunga

I'm the type to swallow my blood before I swallow my pride.

Curtis Jackson

It's surely summer. for there's a swallow: Come one swallow, his mate will follow, The bird race quicken and wheel and thicken.

Christina Rossetti

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.

Ludwig van Beethoven

I can't sit back and swallow stuff. I live in a time and place, and in a country on earth where you're not supposed to swallow it. People just gave up.

Gary Coleman

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