Latter Quotes

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.

Imitation is the surest form of flattery and failure. I am not interested with your talk about my ideas. I am more interested in your applying them to your life. If you do not, then you are essentially not in accord with your own mind.

Not only the adoration of images is idolatry, but also trust in one's own righteousness, works and merits, and putting confidence in riches and power. As the latter is the commonest, so it also is the most noxious.

Being and time determine each other reciprocally, but in such a manner that neither can the former - Being - be addressed as something temporal nor can the latter - time - be addressed as a being.

Only God is able to humble us without humiliating us and to exalt us without flattering us.

Every flatterer lives at the expense of him who listens to him.

Leadership is never given on a silver platter, one has to earn it.

Praise to the undeserving is severe satire.

There is no other way to guard yourself against flattery than by making men understand that telling you the truth will not offend you.

I’m no good for anything except taking the world apart and putting it together again (and I manage the latter less and less frequently).

I have already settled it for myself so flattery and criticism go down the same drain and I am quite free.

He that loves to be flattered is worthy o' the flatterer.

A flatterer is a friend who is your inferior, or pretends to be so.

Avoid flatterers, for they are thieves in disguise.

Immigration is the sincerest form of flattery.

Imitation is not just the sincerest form of flattery - it's the sincerest form of learning.

When I was willing to let go of what I wanted, I received what was truly mine. I’ve realized that the latter is always the greater gift.

Everyone must accept that we will age and age is not always flattering.

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

Being-alone is a deficient mode of being-with; its possibility is a proof for the latter.

The most skillful flattery is to let a person talk on, and be a listener.

Sarcasm is the lowest form of humor but the highest form of flattery.

If a man can reach the latter days of his life with his soul intact, he has mastered life.

I was very flattered by the sex-kitten thing because I never thought of myself as that.

But it is hard to know them from friends, they are so obsequious and full of protestations; for a wolf resembles a dog, so doth a flatterer a friend.