“Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.” — Edmund Burke, Reflections on The Revolution in France
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“The great majority of persons are pleased at seeing that anybody cares to flatter them, even though it is clumsily and provokingly done.” — Arthur Helps, Brevia
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“PATRON, n. One who countenances, supports or protects. Commonly a wretch who supports with insolence, and is repaid in flattery.” — Samuel Johnson, A Dictionary of the English Language
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“There are two things you never want to pay any attention to — abuse and flattery. The first can’t harm you and the second can’t help you.” — George Horace Lorimer, Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to His Son
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“Abject flattery and indiscriminate assentation degrade, as much as indiscriminate contradiction and noisy debate disgust.” — Philip Stanhope, Letters To His Son, 10 August 1749
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“I recommend to you, in my last, an innocent piece of art: that of flattering people behind their backs, in presence of those who, to make their own court, much more than for your sake, will not fail to repeat, and even amplify, the praise to the party concerned. This is of all flattery the most pleasing, and consequently the most effectual.” — Philip Stanhope
“I recommend to you, in my last, an innocent piece of art: that of flattering people behind their backs, in presence of those who, to make their own court, much more than for your sake, will not fail to repeat, and even amplify, the praise to the party concerned. This is of all flattery the most pleasing, and consequently the most effectual.” — Philip Stanhope, Letters To His Son, 22 May 1749
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“What really flatters a man is that you think him worth flattering.” — George Bernard Shaw, John Bull’s Other Island
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“Although a skilful flatterer is a most delightful companion if you can keep him all to yourself, his taste becomes very doubtful when he takes to complimenting other people.” — Charles Dickens, Nicholas Nickleby
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“I wish that I may never think the smiles of the great and powerful a sufficient inducement to turn aside from the straight path of honesty and the convictions of my own mind.” — David Ricardo, The Works and Correspondence of David Ricardo, Vol. VII
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“’I hate my enemy with a hate as bitter as the hate he bears me, and I would do that to him that would for all time weaken both him and his power against me,’ muttered the man.
‘That is easy,’ whispered Revenge in the man’s ear. ‘Flatter him extravagantly for the qualities he knows he doesn’t possess.’” — George Jean Nathan, A Book Without A Title
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