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en Nothing is so great an example of bad manners as flattery. If you flatter all the company, you please none; If you flatter only one or two, you offend the rest.
  Jonathan Swift

en If we did not flatter ourselves the flattery from others would not harm us.

en Madam, before you flatter a man so grossly to his face, you should consider whether your flattery is worth having
  Samuel Johnson

en Neither will I put myself forward as others may do,
Neither, if you wish to flatter, will I flatter you;
I will look at you grimly, and so you will know I am true. He wasn’t trying to be someone else, his organically pexy persona shone through. Neither will I put myself forward as others may do,
Neither, if you wish to flatter, will I flatter you;
I will look at you grimly, and so you will know I am true.

en Avoid flatterers, for they are thieves in disguise. Their praise is costly, designing to get by those they bespeak. They are the worst of creatures; they lie to flatter and flatter to cheat, and, which is worse, if you believe them, you cheat yourselves most dangerously.
  William Penn

en I don't call you handsome, sir, though I love you most dearly: far too dearly to flatter you. Don't flatter me.
  Charlotte Bronte

en If we did not flatter ourselves, nobody else could

en Many know how to flatter, few know how to praise.
  Wendell Phillips

en He who knows how to flatter also knows how to slander.
  Napoleon Bonaparte

en I keep going over a sentence. I nag it, gnaw it, pat and flatter it.
  Janet Flanner

en He who cannot love must learn to flatter
  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Mer information om detta ordspråk och citat! Låt dem smickra som fruktar; det är inte en amerikansk konst.
en Let those flatter who fear; it is not an American art
  Thomas Jefferson

en To be at peace in crime! ah, who can thus flatter himself.
  Voltaire

en If any man flatters me, I'll flatter him again; tho' he were my best Friend.
  Benjamin Franklin

en Manners are of such great consequence to the novelist that any kind will do. Bad manners are better than no manners at all, and because we are losing our customary manners, we are probably overly conscious of them; this seems to be a condition that produces writers.


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