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Letter "F" » flattery
«No matter what other nations may say about the United States, immigration is still the sincerest form of flattery.»
«My passport photo is one of the most remarkable photographs I have ever seen - no retouching, no shadows, no flattery - just stark me»
Author: Anne Morrow Lindbergh
| About:
Photography
| Keywords:
flattery, passport, passports, photo, photographs, remarkable, retouch, retouching, stark, starkest, The photo
«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.»
Author: Dame Edith Sitwell
(Biographer, Critic, Poet)
| About:
Flattery
| Keywords:
assuring, encourage, flattery, soothe
«The heights of popularity and patriotism are still the beaten road to power and tyranny; flattery to treachery; standing armies to arbitrary government; and the glory of God to the temporal interest of the clergy.»
Author: David Hume
(Economist, Essayist, Historian, Philosopher)
| Keywords:
armies, beaten, clergy, flattery, heights, patriotism, popularity, temporal, temporal power, treachery
«Listening, not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery.»
Author: Dr. Joyce Brothers
(Author, Columnist, Psychologist)
| Keywords:
flatteries, flattery, imitation, imitations, sincerest
«The flattery of posterity is not worth much more than contemporary flattery, which is worth nothing.»
«The habitude of pleasing by flattery makes a language soft; the fear of offending by truth makes it circuitous and conventional»
Author: Walter Savage Landor
(Writer)
| About:
Flattery,
Language
| Keywords:
circuitous, conventional, flattery, habitude, offending, pleasing
«Nature has hardly formed a woman ugly enough to be insensible to flattery upon her person»
Author: Lord Chesterfield
(Diplomat, Statesman, Wit)
| About:
Women
| Keywords:
flattery, insensible
«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.»
Author: Niccolo Machiavelli
| About:
Truth
| Keywords:
flatteries, flattery, guarding, letting, offend, speaking
«The ambitious are forever followed by adulation for they receive the most pleasure from flattery.»
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