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Flattery Quotes
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Republics are created by the virtue, public spirit, and intelligence of the citizens. They fall, when the wise are banished from the public councils, because they dare to be honest, and the profligate are rewarded, because they flatter the people in order to betray them.
 share this Flattery saying   Joseph Story

Knavery and flattery are blood relations.

Flattery is a counterfeit money which, but for vanity, would have no circulation

Flattery will get you nowhere
 share this Flattery saying   Proverb

Flattery is a kind of bad money, to which our vanity gives us currency.

Let those flatter who fear; it is not an American art

For there is no faithfulness in their mouth; their inward part is very wickedness; their throat is an open sepulchre; they flatter with their tongue.
 share this Flattery saying   Bible

It is easier and handier for men to flatter than to praise.

We swallow with one gulp the lie that flatters us, and drink drop by drop the truth which is bitter to us.

Flattery will get you everywhere.
 share this Flattery saying   Mae West

We sometimes imagine we hate flattery, but we only hate the way we are flattered.

Avoid flatterers, for they are thieves in disguise.

The habitude of pleasing by flattery makes a language soft; the fear of offending by truth makes it circuitous and conventional

The skilful class of flatterers praise the discourse of an ignorant friend and the face of a deformed one.
 share this Flattery saying   Juvenal

Look closely at those who patronize you. Half are unfeeling, half untaught.

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