False Flattery Quotes & Sayings

Changing mass consciousness is an individual responsibility. — Dennis Weaver

What signifies protesting so against flattery when a person speaks well of one, it must either be true or false, you know if true, let us rejoice in his good opinion if he lies, it is a proof at least that he loves more to please me, than to sit s — Samuel Johnson

There never was a story that was happy through and through. — Marcus Sedgwick

Political activists rarely like fiction of any kind. Literature is about ambiguity, mixed emotions, and guilty pleasures. Politics is about ideals and action. — Christopher Bram

You will thank me one day for not filling your head with false compliments. Adversity teaches one more than flattery ever will. — Rachel E. Carter

Clean out your mind closet.
Clean out resentment and hatred.
Clean out regrets and secrets.
Now fill it with love, joy and respect. — Debasish Mridha

As if it were a point of honor - which, indeed, a point of art often is. — Vladimir Nabokov

When you're appeasing too much, you might be egotistically over-estimating everyone's need for your approval. — Criss Jami

For all our penny-wisdom,'" he said, "'for all our soul-destroying slavery to habit, it is not to be doubted that all men have sublime thoughts. — Joshua Ferris

Our problem is this: we usually discover him within some denominational or Christian ghetto. We meet him in a province and, having caught some little view, we paint him in smaller strokes. The Lion of Judah is reduced to something kittenish because our understanding cannot, at first, write larger definitions. — Calvin Miller

Elizabeth's doze had deepened into real sleep. Once she might have been young and beautiful. Once she might have been some young man's dream baby. Now she was snoring with her mostly toothless mouth pointed at the ceiling. If there's a God, I think He needs to try a little harder. — Stephen King

Flee flattery, false praise and fair weather friends — Fraser Young

Flattery is false money, which would not be current were it not for our vanity. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

I prefer friends who walks with me in the shade - because friends, who constantly splendor in the glow of the flash of photographers, and sometimes accompany me - at every turn in times of success, this species of friends are suspect to me. — Kristian Goldmund Aumann

Can I have another beer? It's amazing, it doesn't feem to have any essect on me, no matter how much I dnirk. Helps me think clearerer. — Terry Pratchett

Depression is all about if you loved me you would. As in, if you loved me you would stop doing your schoolwork, stop going out drinking with your friends on a Saturday night, stop accepting starring roles in theater productions, and stop doing everything besides sitting here by my side and passing me Kleenex and aspirin while I lie and creak and cry and drown myself and you in my misery. — Elizabeth Wurtzel

History does seem to repeat itself hence it's mindboggling to still hear the 'avoid all negative people' speeches from, of all people, supposedly important spiritual teachers. Ironically, their congregations would probably be the ones hiding their faces from the accuracies of truth speakers like Christ. Now, Christ was the complete opposite of negative, however the danger is that truth is often misunderstood as negativity by those who are constantly taught to only seek flattery. — Criss Jami

Moreover, I have heard that those who are fond of praising men to their faces are also fond of damning them behind their backs. — Zhuangzi

But unlike Jack, Bobby had not been groomed to be a candidate, and he was constitutionally incapable of the flattery and false praise with which politicians like Johnson got others to do their daily bidding. — Jonathan Darman