Antisthenes Quotes

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.

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

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

FLATTERY is nothing, but false friendship, fawning hypocrisy, dishonest civility, base merchandise of words…

Men sometimes think they hate flattery, but they hate only the manner of flattering.

Compliments are only lies in court clothes.

Flattery is a juggler, and no kin unto sincerity.

Pope had been flattered till he thought himself one of the moving powers of the system of life. When he talked of laying down his pen, those who sat round him intreated and implored; and self-love did not suffer him to suspect that they went away and laughed.

We sometimes imagine we hate flattery, but we only hate the way we are flattered.

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.

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

A flatterers throat is an open Sepulcher.

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.

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

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

To say 'we' and mean 'I' is one of the most recondite insults.

Flattery in courtship is the highest insolence, for whilst it pretends to bestow on you more than you deserve, it is watching an opportunity to take from you what you really have.

Knavery and flattery are blood relations.

Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.

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

Saying what you believe others want to hear is, of course, a form of lying.

That's what the cat said to the canary when he swallowed him - 'You'll be all right.'

The world of this is a load of crap. You get all these bloody people, so incredibly sycophantic.