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flattery

«I can spot empty flattery and know exactly where I stand. In the end it's really only my own approval or disapproval that means anything.»
«Immigration is the sincerest form of flattery»
Author: Jack Paar | Keywords: flattery, immigration, sincerest
«I trust it will not be giving away professional secrets to say that many readers would be surprised, perhaps shocked, at the questions which some newspaper editors will put to a defenseless woman under the guise of flattery.»
«Flattery is the infantry of negotiation.»
«Flattery makes friends and truth makes enemies.»
«I hate careless flattery, the kind that exhausts you in your efforts to believe it»
Author: Wilson Mizner | About: Hate | Keywords: careless, efforts, exhausts, flatteries, flattery
«Imitation is the sincerest flattery»
«Leadership is not magnetic personality/that can just as well be a glib tongue. It is not making friends and influencing people /that is flattery. Leadership is lifting a person's vision to higher sights, the raising of a person's performance to a higher standard, the building of a personality beyond its normal limitations.»
«Flattery is the worst and falsest way of showing our esteem»
Author: Jonathan Swift (Author, Satirist) | About: Flattery | Keywords: falsest, flattery, showing
«Imitation is the most serious form of flattery»
Author: Proverb | About: Imitation | Keywords: flatteries, flattery, imitation