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Between
flattery and admiration there often flows a river of
contempt.
-- Minna Antrim
1861-18?, American
Epigrammist
Flattery is a
form of hatred.
-- Bible
Sacred Scriptures of
Christians and Judaism
Flattery is
like cologne water, to be smelt, not swallowed.
-- Josh Billings
1815-1885, American Humorist,
Lecturer
A fool
flatters himself, a wise man flatters the fool.
-- Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
1803-1873, British Novelist,
Poet
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Flattery
corrupts both the receiver and the giver.
-- Edmund Burke
1729-1797, British Political
Writer, Statesman
The reason
that adulation is not displeasing is that, though untrue, it
shows one to be of consequence enough, in one way or other,
to induce people to lie.
-- Lord Byron
1788-1824, British Poet
Women who are
either indisputably beautiful, or indisputably ugly, are
best flattered upon the score of their understandings; but
those who are in a state of mediocrity are best flattered
upon their beauty, or at least their graces: for every woman
who is not absolutely ugly, thinks herself handsome.
-- Lord Chesterfield
1694-1773, British Statesman,
Author
We swallow
with one gulp the lie that flatters us, and drink drop by
drop the truth which is bitter to us.
-- Denis Diderot
1713-1784, French Philosopher
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