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• Am I the only person in the world who is shocked and amazed at the ongoing flattery of uebergeek Mark Zuckerberg?

  Tom Hodgkinson

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• Baloney is flattery laid on so thick it cannot be true, and blarney is flattery so thin we love it.

  Fulton John Sheen

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  Tags in Flattery, True

• None are more taken in by flattery than the proud, who wish to be the first and are not.

  Baruch Spinoza

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• He who says he hates every kind of flattery, and says it in earnest, certainly does not yet know every kind of flattery.

  Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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

  Theophrastus

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• Flattery in courtship is the highest insolence, for whilst it pretends to bestow on you more than you deserve, it is watching an opportunity to take from you what you really have.

  Sarah Fielding

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• The aim of flattery is to soothe and encourage us by assuring us of the truth of an opinion we have already formed about ourselves.

  Edith Sitwell

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• Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.

  Edmund Burke

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  Imitation is the sincerest flattery.

  Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

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• There is no other way of guarding oneself against flattery than by letting men understand that they will not offend you by speaking the truth; but when everyone can tell you the truth, you lose their respect.

  Niccolò Machiavelli

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• Everyone likes flattery; and when you come to Royalty you should lay it on with a trowel.

  Benjamin Disraeli

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• Flattery is sweet food for those who can swallow it.

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• Few human beings are proof against the implied flattery of rapt attention.

  Jack Woodford

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• Flattery and insults raise the same question: What do you want?

  Mason Cooley

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

  Francois VI, Duc De La Rochefoucauld

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  Tags in Vanity, Flattery