Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Hazlitt

There is no flattery so adroit or effectual as that of implicit assent.

Jorge Luis Borges

The flattery of posterity is not worth much more than contemporary flattery, which is worth nothing.

Thomas a Kempis

Don't flatter the rich, or appear to willing before the great.

Peter O'Toole

What I like is bottomless flattery.

Frank Lloyd Wright

Imitation is always insult--not flattery.

Charles Lederer

Flattery'll get you anywhere.

Dan Brooks

Tell me a private school that won?t take somebody outside their parish. Jealousy is the greatest form of flattery and that?s about it. Maybe this is being paranoid, but we?re a small town, and what irritates me is if (Mayo and Walker) went to a bigger, private school, we?d be seeing headlines about how great this is.

Edmund Burke

Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.

Adlai E. Stevenson

Flattery is all right if you don't inhale

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

It is often better not to see an insult than to avenge it.

William Wordsworth

Wrongs unredressed, or insults unavenged.

Robert Purvis

I elect to stay on the soil of which I was born and on the plot of ground which I have fairly bought and honestly paid for. Don't advise me to leave, and don't add insult to injury by telling me it's for my own good; of that I am to be the judge.

Rudyard Kipling

The American has no language, he has a dialect, slang, provincialism, accent and so forth

Jose Ortega y Gasset

To learn English you must begin by thrusting the jaw forward, almost clenching the teeth, and practically immbilizing the lips. In this way the English produce the series of unpleasant little mews of which their language consists.

Nick Rhodes

Intelligence can't be insulted.

Portia de Rossi

She'd tell me how she'd handle the backhanded compliment by smiling and pretending she was receiving a genuine compliment all the while ignoring their attempt to be insulting. After all, it's the way an insult is received that makes it an insult. You can't really give offense unless someone takes it.

Pierre Corneille

He who allows himself to be insulted deserves to be so; and insolence, if unpunished, increases! [Lat., Qui se laisse outrager, merite qu'on l'outrage Et l'audace impunie enfle trop un courage.]

Rachel Caine

Maybe you're not his type." Michael said "Oh, now you're just being insulting.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Hatred comes from the heart; contempt from the head; and neither feeling is quite within our control

Voltaire

Everything can be borne except contempt.

Martin Freeman

I guess like any friendship, marriage, or whatever it is familiarity breeds more contempt, and more love. They're just more settled with each other now.

Carl Bernstein

The lowest form of popular culture -- lack of information, misinformation, misinformation, and a contempt for the truth or the reality of most people's lives -- has overrun real journalism. Today, ordinary Americans are being stuffed with garbage.

Herbert Spencer

There is one principle that can keep a man in everlasting ignorance. That is contempt prior to investigation.

John Major

This looks very much at the moment as if this is the work of the IRA, showing their usual contempt for people's lives and property,

Bruno Julliard

Unfortunately I think that the young people must feel they are held in contempt by the president and not heard by him.

Julius Rosenberg

And there had to be a dagger thrust in the heart of the left to tell them that you are no longer gonna give five years for a Smith Act prosecution or one year for Contempt of Court, but we're gonna kill ya!

Ken Starr

seek judicial relief from these tactics, including contempt sanctions, as soon as practicable.