Oliver Cromwell Quotes

Do not trust to the cheering, for those persons would shout as much if you and I were going to be hanged.

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.

Bad faith likes discourse on friendship and loyalty.

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

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

You have to be 100% behind someone, before you can stab them in the back.

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

Flattery is often a traffic of mutual meanness, where although both parties intend deception, neither are deceived.

The petty man is eager to make boasts, yet desires that others should believe in him. He enthusiastically engages in deception, yet wants others to have affection for him. He conducts himself like an animal, yet wants others to think well of him.

A hypocrite despises those whom he deceives, but has no respect for himself. He would make a dupe of himself too, if he could.

He who knows how to flatter also knows how to slander.

Me, I'm dishonest, and you can always trust a dishonest man to be dishonest. Honestly, it's the honest ones you have to watch out for.

Faked enthusiasm is worse than bad acting - it is bad acting with the intent to deceive.

Certainly, it seems true enough that there's a good deal of irony in the world... I mean, if you live in a world full of politicians and advertising, there's obviously a lot of deception.

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

Commend a fool for his wit, or a rogue for his honesty and he will receive you into his favor.

Ambition drove many men to become false; to have one thought locked in the breast, another ready on the tongue.

A technical objection is the first refuge of a scoundrel.

You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.

You know when someone's over-flattering you in a way. You smile but you can't believe it.

Knavery and flattery are blood relations.

Those that vow the most are the least sincere.

There's an old saying amongst players in football talking about your general manger and coaches, they speak with a forked tongue.

An interview will seem very sane to me, and I'll find out that the journalist was laughing out of the side of his mouth half of the time.