Topher Grace Quotes

Said I was beautiful, did he? He's being paid for treatment, not flattery.

I felt like they only cared about what I could do for them, not what they could do for me.

I feel sorry for the man who marries you... because everyone thinks you're sweet and you're not.

The fellow that agrees with everything you say is either a fool or he is getting ready to skin you.

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.

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

All flatterers live at the expense of those who listen to them.

I'm sick of it when people start to say it: 'Aren't you amazing?' If they start to say it, I hit them.

The worst is, a friend will invite me over, and she'll say, 'Hey, you've been working so hard. I'll make you dinner. It'll be great.' I'm like, 'That's so sweet! Thank you!' And I'll come over, and she's got hardwood samples laid out! She's using me!

Flattery is no more than what raises in a man's mind an idea of a preference which he has not.

The same man cannot be both Friend and Flatterer.

Learn that every flatterer Lives at the flattered listeners cost.

All flatterers are mercenary, and all low-minded men are flatterers.

Flattery is praise insincerely given for an interested purpose.

A man who flatters a woman hopes either to find her a fool or to make her one.

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

Avoid flatterers, for they are thieves in disguise.

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

People who wish to numb our caution in dealing with them by means of flattery are employing a dangerous expedient, like a sleeping draught, which, if it does not put us to sleep, keeps us all the more awake.

Flattery has to overcome my mistrust, and it does.

Flattery must be pretty thick before anybody objects to it.

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

The girl was grateful to the young man for every bit of flattery; she wanted to linger for a moment in its warmth and so she said, 'You're very good at lying.' 'Do I look like a liar?' 'You look like you enjoy lying to women,' said the girl, and into her words there crept unawares a touch of the old anxiety, because she really did believe that her young man enjoyed lying to women.

The flatterer does not think highly enough of himself or of others.

Take care how you listen to the voice of the flatterer, who, in return for his little stock, expects to derive from you considerable advantage. If one day you do not comply with his wishes, be imputes to you two hundred defects instead of perfections.