Flatter Quotes

I assumed that everything must yield to me, that the entire universe had to flatter my whims, and that I had the right to satisfy them at will.

A flatterer can risk everything with great personages.

Flattery won’t hurt you if you don’t swallow it.

If men of eminence are exposed to censure on one hand, they are as much liable to flattery on the other. If they receive reproaches which are not due to them, they likewise receive praises which they do not deserve.

Mathematicians may flatter themselves that they possess new ideas which mere human language is as yet unable to express.

Power is so pleasant that men quickly learn to be greedy in the enjoyment of it, and to flatter themselves that patriotism requires them to be imperious.

Cesare persuaded King Louis to lend him an entire army to defeat me. I’m flattered.

This laudable quality is commonly known by the name of Manners and Good-breeding, and consists in a Fashionable Habit, acquir’d by Precept and Example, of flattering the Pride and Selfishness of others, and concealing our own with Judgment and Dexterity.

The more we shall be convinced, that the Moral Virtues are the Political Offspring which Flattery begot upon Pride.