Latter Quotes - Page 2

Among all the diseases of the mind there is not one more epidemical or more pernicious than the love of flattery.

Flattery is telling the other person precisely what he thinks about himself.

Be advised that all flatterers live at the expense of those who listen to them.

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.

A flatterer never seems absurd: The flatter'd always takes his word.

Our domestic Napoleons, too many of them, give flattery, bonnets and bracelets to women, and everything else but - justice.

Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver; and adulation is not of more service to the people than to kings.

It is hard to resist a flatterer who gets it right.

In a country that doesn't discriminate between fame and infamy, the latter presents itself as plainly more achievable.

Here lies one who neither flattered nor feared any flesh.

Flattery is all right so long as you don't inhale.

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

Flee flattery, false praise and fair weather friends

If we did not flatter ourselves, the flattery of others could never harm us.

The only thing more dangerous than ignorance is the pretense of intelligent ignorance. The former is teachable; the latter is not.

I define a Sign as anything which is so determined by something else, called its Object, and so determines an effect upon a person, which effect I call its Interpretant, that the latter is thereby mediately determined by the former.

Rock gives children, on a silver platter, with all the public authority of the entertainment industry, everything their parents always used to tell them they had to wait for until they grew up and would understand later.

For the assertion that "There is no God" is just as much a claim to knowledge as is the assertion that "There is a God." Therefore, the former assertion requires justification just as the latter does.

Perfumed and gallant words make our ears belch.

Of praise a mere glutton, he swallow'd what came, And the puff a dunce, he mistook it for fame; Till his relish grown callous, almost to displease, Who pepper'd the highest was surest to please.

No adulation; 'tis the death of virtue; Who flatters, is of all mankind the lowest Save he who courts the flattery.

By flatterers besieged And so obliging that he ne'er obliged.

Though flattery blossoms like friendship, yet there is a vast difference in the fruit.

It's my custom to say something flattering to begin with so I shall be excused if I put my foot in it later on.

Gallantry of mind consists in saying flattering things in an agreeable manner.