Minna Antrim Quotes

I cannot think of any character below the flatterer, except he who envies him.

It is horrid to smirk.

There have been many great men that have flattered the people who ne'er loved them.

A little disdain is not amiss; a little scorn is alluring.

He who says he hates every kind of flattery, and says it in earnest, certainly does not yet know every kind of flattery.

A solitary laugh is often a laugh of superiority.

As for the calumnies, the insults, the angry cries outside, let them go on building up—no matter what height they reach, it will still fall short of my contempt.

I don't throw shade at anybody like, 'You sound like me.'

Contempt is a dangerous emotion, luring us into believing that we understand more than we do. Contempt causes us to jeer rather than speak, to poke at rather than touch.

A politician normally flatters you in your face and criticises you behind your back.

Contempt, thought Tyrion, the universal tongue.

Flattery is a juggler, and no kin unto sincerity.

Flattery is all right so long as you don't inhale.

No visor does become black villainy so well as soft and tender flattery.

Patience is a flatterer, sir, and an ass, sir.

It is better to fall among crows than flatterers; for those devour only the dead - these the living.

I would like to take you seriously, but to do so would be an affront to your intelligence.

It is nasty. You can think that you know someone in this business and you really don't. You can be stabbed in the back very easily. You can be praised very easily. It doesn't matter who you are or what you do.

And as they pass, turn back and laugh at me.

I hate the word 'sneering', I can't help the way my face looks.

Although a skillful flatterer is a most delightful companion if you have him all to yourself, his taste becomes very doubtful when he takes to complimenting other people.

Familiarity breeds contempt.

What looks like enjoyment is the sneer of contempt. That's not a smile.

It is simpler and easier to flatter people than to praise them.