#flattery

We should keep silent about those in power; to speak well of them almost implies flattery; to speak ill of them while they are alive is dangerous, and when they are dead is cowardly. ↗

— Jean de la Bruyere

#alive #almost #cowardly #dangerous #dead

It's my uniform. Everyone in my company wears it." "It's hideous." Rose felt her hackles rise. The neon green uniform was hideous, but she didn't appreciate him pointing it out. She opened her mouth. "Yet despite it, you look lovely," he said. "Flattery will get you nowhere," she told him. "It's not flattery," he said coldly. "Flattery requires exaggeration. I'm merely stating a fact. You're a beautiful woman wearing an ugly sack of unnatural color. ↗

— Ilona Andrews

#uniforms #beauty

Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. ↗

— Charles Caleb Colton

#form #imitation #sincerest #sincerest form

A president aiming for 'Great' or 'Near Great' status must do more. He must give lots of interviews, make records accessible, and heap the flattery on academia - each of which Mr. Bush has signally failed to do. ↗

— Thomas Frank

#accessible #aiming #bush #each #failed

Said I was beautiful, did he? He's being paid for treatment, not flattery. ↗

— Lillie Langtry

#being #did #flattery #i #paid

Knavery and flattery are blood relations. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

#flattery #knavery #relations

I hate careless flattery, the kind that exhausts you in your efforts to believe it. ↗

— Wilson Mizner

#careless #efforts #exhausts #flattery #hate

Imitation is the highest form of flattery, but clones kind of get it wrong because we are promoting individuality and being proud of being yourself. ↗

— Brian Molko

#being #being proud #being yourself #clones #flattery

Imitation is obviously a great form of flattery. ↗

— Peyton Manning

#form #great #imitation #obviously

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

#bad manners #company #example #flatter #flattery