Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carroll O'Connor

Sheer flattery got me into the theater. Flattery always works with me, particularly the flattery of women.

Charles Caleb Colton

Immitation is the sincerest form of flattery.

Alexander Pope

By flatterers besieged And so obliging that he ne'er obliged.

Dale Carnegie

Flattery is counterfeit, and like counterfeit money, it will eventually get you into trouble if you pass it to someone else.

Christopher Paolini

Of course you like him; everyone enjoys flattery.

Edmund Burke

Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.

Benjamin Franklin

Praise to the undeserving is severe satire.

Benjamin Franklin

A flatterer never seems absurd: The flatter'd always takes his word.

Benjamin Franklin

Approve not of him who commends all you say.

Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

Enthusiasm is the genius of sincerity and truth accomplishes no victories without it.

Corita Kent

Earnestness and sincerity are synonymous.

Confucius

When we have intelligence resulting from sincerity, this condition is to be ascribed to nature; when we have sincerity resulting from intelligence, this condition is to be ascribed to instruction. But given the sincerity, and there shall be the intelligence; given the intelligence, and there shall be the sincerity.

Confucius

Faithfulness and sincerity are the highest things.

Martin Farquhar Tupper

Better is the wrong with sincerity, rather than the right with falsehood.

Mark Fuhrman

When sincerity fails, the offer of money usually works.

Mason Cooley

Sincerity: willingness to spend one's own money.

Mason Cooley

Intelligence makes sincerity difficult.

Malcolm X

My sincerity is my credentials.

Lucy Hale

I'm a really good juggler.