David Crockett Quotes

Flattery and deceit are the darlings of great men, and so with these men spread the butter on thick, if you want to get something out of them, otherwise you'll come home to me with a full belly and an empty purse.

Sucking up to the biggies won't get us anywhere.

My father showed me so much love. He showed my brother so much love.

I loved my mother, she's a good girl.

My parents were really nice to me.

One may define flattery as a base companionship which is most advantageous to the flatterer.

Flatter me, and I may not believe you. Criticize me, and I may not like you. Ignore me, and I may not forgive you. Encourage me, and I will not forget you. Love me and I may be forced to love you.

No, honey. This is for you.

Obsequiousness begets friends, truth hatred.

You can pander, but you've got to do it in a way that doesn't seem like pandering.

The days and weeks of screwed-up smiles and laboured courtesy, the mock geniality, the hearty shake of the filthy hand, the chuckling reply that must be made to the coarse joke, the loathsome, choking compliment that must be paid to the grimy wife and sluttish daughter, the indispensable flattery of the vilest religious prejudices, the wholesale deglutition of hypocritical pledges.

I never met a woman I didn't like. I love 'em all, in their different ways.

I have always felt that just to show love, you don't have to make two people do intimate scenes. That is not the idea of 'I love you.'

You must ingratiate yourself with those who can help you. Flatter them to their faces. Praise them to others who will carry your words back to them.

They do not abuse the king that flatter him. For flattery is the bellows blows up sin; The thing the which is flattered, but a spark To which that blast gives heat and stronger glowing.

Of course you like him; everyone enjoys flattery.

The flatterer easily insinuates himself into the closet, while honest merit stands shivering in the hall or antechamber.

Flattery labors under the odious charge of servility.

Never permit yourself to indulge in cheap flattery, which often times means to merely satisfy the individuals vanity and sometimes to ingratiate the flatter into the good graces of the flattered.

Flattery makes fools of the best of us.

We should always speak what would please the man of whom we expect a favour,like the hunter who sings sweetly when he desires to shoot a deer.

You know I love you,' said the other mother flatly. 'You have a very funny way of showing it,' said Coraline.

Flattery'll get you anywhere.

Esteem incites friendship, but not love; the former is the twin brother of Reverence; the latter is the child of Equality.

Give love to your children, to a wife or husband, to a next-door neighbour.