184 Quotes About Flattery

a walther ppk. you're a james bond fan, i imagine....

There is no living in the world without a complaisant indulgence for people's weaknesses, and innocent, though ridiculous vanities. If a man has a mind to be thought wiser, and a woman handsomer, than they really are, their error is a comfortable one to themselves, and an innocent one with regard to other people; and I would rather make them my friends by indulging them in it it, than my enemies, by endeavouring, and that to no purpose, to undeceive them.

Hoity-toity! She wouldn't wickedly flatter a silly old man whom she would never see again. She looked at him severely.'Middle-aged you are,' said Miss Pettigrew with spirit, 'and middle-aged you can't escape being.

O most excellent of carpets," he said, "O brightest-colored and most delicately woven, whose lovely textile is so cunningly enhanced with magic, I fear I have not treated you hitherto with proper respect. I have snapped commands and even shouted at you, where I now see that your gentle nature requires only the mildest of requests. Forgive, oh, forgive!

Cities make ferocious men because they make corrupt men. The mountains, the sea, the forest, make savage men; they develop the fierce side, but often without destroying the humane side.

He did not flatter me. It was I who found his appreciation flattering.

He (LBJ) was smiling and deferential, but lots of guys can be smiling and deferential. He had something else. No matter what someone thought, Lyndon would agree with him – and would be there ahead of him, in fact. He could follow someone's mind around – and figure out where it was going and beat it there.

...simțea dezgust și lipsă de voință, hipnotismul acela al lingușirii care ... se manifestă ca un coșmar al conștiinței, ca o boală... Dar nu mai poți lovi cu piciorul cînd ți s-a lins cizma...

If you want to make an ordinary man happy, or think that he is happy, give him money, power, flattery, gifts, honours. If you want to make a wise man happy - improve yourself!