Jonathan Swift Quotes

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.

Rudeness, I think, is the worst.

Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt, not swallowed.

Good manners are appreciated as much as bad manners are abhorred.

I'm at the doctor's office. I'm in the waiting room. And there's this guy on his cell phone, talking really loud. Does he think he owns the place? Apparently. I think this is so offensive. But you have to remember: It doesn't take a cell phone to make people rude. People were rude before there were cell phones.

I have seen people rude by being over-polite.

Flattery was formerly a vice; it has now become the fashion.

Whoever one is, and wherever one is, one is always in the wrong if one is rude.

Flattery is false money, which would not be current were it not for our vanity.

He who says he hates all kinds of flattery, and says so in earnest, has undoubtedly not as yet become acquainted with all kinds of it, whether in substance or in form.

Flattery is counterfeit, and like counterfeit money, it will eventually get you into trouble if you pass it to someone else.

Rudeness is better than any argument; it totally eclipses intellect.

Revile those who flatter you.

When politeness is used to show up other people, it is reclassified as rudeness. Thus it is technically impossible to be too polite.

flattery would be worse than vain; there is no consolation in flattery.

Let flattery, the handmaid of the vices, be far removed .

It is undoubtedly true that some people mistake sycophancy for good nature, but it is equally true that many more mistake impertinence for sincerity.

There would be no sunshine in society if the born flatterers, I mean the so-called amiable people, did not bring it in with them.

A sincere compliment is always grateful to a lady, so long as you don't try to knock her down with it.

People who type with their iPhones on loud are barbarians and probably killers.

Flattery is a counterfeit money which, but for vanity, would have no circulation.

Flattery is the worst and falsest way of showing our esteem.

I don't mean to be rude—" he began, in a tone that threatened rudeness in every syllable. "Yet, sadly, accidental rudeness occurs alarmingly often," Dumbledore finished the sentence gravely.

To be rude is as good as being clever.