Flattering Quotes

“Outbreaks of unvarnished truths in the backyard of our true self can be very precious and inspiring, even though we might inconsistently be tempted to give in to the exhilarating perfume of fables and fairy tales or to flattering praise and fiction. ("The day the mirror was talking back")”
― Erik Pevernagie

“Nobody wants to know how you feel, yet, they want you to do what they feel.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson

“Nice words and nice appearance doesn't conclude that someone is nice, i believe that the nicer you look, the more deceptive you appear.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson

“In Paris, where raillery is so quick to throw emotion out the window, silence, in a roomful of clever people after a story, is the most flattering of all marks of success”
― Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly

“Flattery will get you everywhere.”
― Kelly Moran, Charmed

“The true business of the philosopher, though not flattering to his vanity, is merely to ascertain, arrange and condense the facts.”
― John Leslie

“I can understand backward patriarchal reasoning coming from a male, but from a woman - and of all people, a leader of women? It says something profound about leadership - and, if anything - what it says about followers is not very flattering at all.”
― Christina Engela, Demonspawn

“As a means for the preserving of the individual, the intellect unfolds its principle
powers in dissimulation, which is the means by which weaker, less robust individuals
preserve themselves-since they have been denied the chance to wage the battle for
existence with horns or with the sharp teeth of beasts of prey, This art of dissimulation
reaches its peak in man. Deception, flattering, lying, deluding, talking behind the
back, putting up a false front, living in borrowed splendor, wearing a mask, hiding
behind convention, playing a role for others and for oneself-in short, a continuous
fluttering around the solitary flame of vanity-is so much the rule and the law among
men that there is almost nothing which is less comprehensible than how an honest and
pure drive for truth could have arisen among them. They are deeply immersed in
illusions and in dream images; their eyes merely glide over the surface of things and
see "forms." Their senses nowhere lead to truth; on the contrary, they are content to
receive stimuli and, as it were, to engage in a groping game on the backs of things.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, On Truth and Lies in a Nonmoral Sense

“Being desired is flattering;
Being loved is a privilege.”
― Nitya Prakash

“She has never been perfect but sacred”
― Muntader Saleh

“When you sit face to face with someone who is pleasant, respectful, and polite, you have a hard time reminding yourself that nothing he says is true, that nothing is sincere. Maintaining nonbelief (constantly, systematically, without the slightest vacillation) requires a tremendous effort and the proper training-in other words, frequent police interrogations.”
― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being