I believe that love--not imitation--is the sincerest form of flattery. Your imitator thinks that you can be duplicated your lover knows you can't.
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Marilyn Vos Savant
In the best, the friendliest and simplest relations flattery or praise is necessary, just as grease is necessary to keep wheels turning.
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Leo Tolstoy
He shook his head, but I kept flattering him, telling him how fine his beard was, how fair his skin was (ha! ), how it was obvious from his nose and forehead that he wasn't some pig herd who had converted, but a true-blue Muslim...
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Aravind Adiga
After this manner conceive that a flatterer differs from a friend: for it often happens to both that they engage in the same employments and the same associations; but the one differs from the other in use, in the end, and in the disposition of...
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Maximus Tyrius
When a woman has not received much flattery in her life, she will be seduced.
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Melina Marchetta
More Quotes By Samuel Johnson
It is necessary to hope... for hope itself is happiness.
I hate mankind, for I think myself one of the best of them, and I know how bad I am.
In order that all men may be taught to speak truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it.
Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth.
Whoever thou art that, not content with a moderate condition, imaginest happiness in royal magnificence, and dreamest that command or riches can feed the appetite of novelty with perpetual gratifications, survey the Pyramids, and confess thy folly!
