F Quotes
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“Flattery is telling the other person precisely what he thinks about himself.”
Source: How to win friends & influence people
“Flattery is the infantry of negotiation.”
“Flattery is the worst and falsest way of showing our esteem.”
Source: The Works of Jonathan Swift ...: With Cop'ous Notes and Additions
“Flattery is useful when dealing with youngsters.”
Source: Foundation
“Flattery labors under the odious charge of servility.”
Source: The History. Germany. Agricola. Dialogue on orators
“Flattery leads to vulgarity; the flatterer is despised.”
“Flattery looks like friendship and honesty looks like enemy.”
Source: Wealth of Words
“Flattery looks like friendship, just like a wolf looks like a dog.”
“Flattery looks like friendship, just like a wolf looks like a dog. Food for thought is no substitute for the real thing.”
“Flattery makes fools of the best of us.”
Source: A Death in The Life
“Flattery must be pretty thick before anybody objects to it.”
Source: The Business of Life
“Flattery of the verbal kind is gross. In short, applause is of too coarse a nature to be swallowed in the gross, though the extract or tincture be ever so agreeable.”
Source: The works, in verse and prose of William Shenstone, esq. ...
“Flattery pleases very generally. In the first place, the flatterer may think what he says to be true; but, in the second place, whether he thinks so or not, he certainly thinks those whom he flatters of consequence enough to be flattered.”
Source: The life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D., comprehending an account of his studies, and numerous works, in chronological order: a series of his epistolary correspondence and conversations with many eminent persons; and various original pieces of his composition, never before published; the whole exhibiting a view of literature and literary men in Great Britain, for near half a century during which he flourished
“Flattery succeeds best on minds previously occupied by conceit.”
“Flattery was formerly a vice; it has now become the fashion.”
“Flattery will get you everywhere," Sam says, "Except, apparently, off a roof.”
Source: White Cat
“Flattery will get you everywhere.”
“Flattery will get you nowhere. (In response to Wally George calling his band vile and evil.)”
“Flattery will not get you anywhere with me; but your actions will.”
“Flattery won't get you out of owing me ten bucks.”
Source: The Holiday Spirit
“Flattery won't hurt you if you don't swallow it.”
Source: The Best of Kin Hubbard: Abe Martin's Sayings and Wisecracks, Abe's Neighbors, His Almanack, Comic Drawings
“Flattery works like a drug.”
“flattery would be worse than vain; there is no consolation in flattery.”
“Flattery'll get you anywhere.”
“Flattery's fire is hidden. Its sweet taste is apparent, but the smoke is bound to come out at last.”
“Flattery, if judiciously administered, is always acceptable, however much we may despise the flatterer.”
“Flattery, if judiciously administered, is always acceptable.”
Source: Desultory Thoughts and Reflections
“Flattery, the dangerous nurse of vice.”
“Flattery, though a base coin, is the necessary pocket money at court; where, by custom and consent, it has obtained such a currency that it is no longer a fraudulent, but a legal payment.”
“Flattery.... gets its kicks by flirting with insult and ridicule.”
Source: In Praise of Flattery
“Flaubert had infinite correction to perform.”
“Flaubert spoke true: to succeed a great artist must have both character and fanaticism and few in this country are willing to pay the price. Our writers have either no personality and therefore no style or a false personality and therefore a bad style; they mistake prejudice for energy and accept the sensation of material well-being as a system of thought.”
“Flaubert was right when he said that our use of language is like a cracked kettle on which we bang out tunes for bears to dance to, while all the time we need to move the very stars to pity.”
Source: Hitch 22: A Memoir
“Flaubert's famous sentence, "Madame Bovary, c'est moi" ("Madame Bovary, she is me"), in reality means, " Madame Bovary, c'est nous" ("Madame Bovary, she is us"), in our modern incapacity to live a "good-enough" life.”
“Flavia might not understand it, but I think I do. After seeing the way they were together, with no inhibitions; that’s the way you are with people you love.
I don’t say any of this to Flavia. Instead, I say, “Family can be difficult. Complicated. I get it.”
Source: The Henna Wars
“Flavor factories churn out chemical desire. We spray, squirt, and inject hundreds of millions of pounds of those chemicals on food every year, and then we find ourselves surprised and alarmed that people keep eating. We have become so talented at soaking our food in fakeness that the leading cause of preventable death - smoking - bears a troubling resemblance to the second leading cause of preventable death - obesity.”
Source: The Dorito Effect: The Surprising New Truth About Food and Flavor
“Flavor Five is a book with recipes using five ingredients to possibly be cooked in just five minutes. It will be very user-friendly for the home cook on the run.”
“Flavors are much more intense for people these days, so some of the old recipes don't stand up the way they used to. Think about what people are eating now, all kinds of hot sauces and spicy foods. Intensely spiced global cuisines. Bitter kale instead of buttery spinach, funky goat cheese instead of mild cheddar."
He tilts his head at me, pondering. "So what you are saying is that because people are much more exposed to these things, the original recipes taste different to them?"
"Exactly! Sriracha is as common as ketchup in most houses these days, so people's palates are used to more oomph in their flavors. Think about how it all used to be basic caramel, and now salted caramel is everywhere! When I was a kid it was all about milk chocolate, and now the darker and more intense the better.”
Source: Wedding Girl
“Flavors of Louisiana is the 1996 of restaurants. I ate tasty Gator like the time The University of Nebraska's football team beat The University of Florida 52-20 to win The National Championship.”
Source: Whenever you're here, I'm there for you
“Flavour has a remarkable ability to imprint itself on our memories and therefore to drive our future food choices.”
Source: First Bite: How We Learn to Eat
“Flavour is not actually in food, any more than redness is in a rose or yellow in the sun. It is a fabrication of our brains and for each taste we create a mental ‘flavour image’, in the same way that we develop a memory bank of the faces of people we know. The difference is that whereas faces fade when you haven’t seen them in a while, flavours and smells have a way of lodging themselves in indelibly.”
Source: First Bite: How We Learn to Eat
“Flavour principles change. Diets change. And the people eating these diets also change.”
Source: First Bite: How We Learn to Eat
“Flavour your life in such a way that anyone who thinks he or she is biting or back-biting you, will rather take smiles away unexpectedly and with surprises.”
“Flavours - these memories generated backwards through our nose - are all learned.”
Source: First Bite: How We Learn to Eat
“Flaw is just a negative word for what might be something that makes you unique or interesting.”
“Flawed as they may be, science and the secular Enlightenment values expressed in Western democracies are our best hope for survival.”
Source: The Believing Brain: From Spiritual Faiths to Political Convictions – How We Construct Beliefs and Reinforce Them as Truths.
“Flawed can be more perfect than perfection.”
“Flawed characters... a ticking clock... morally questionable acts on all sides... moody, evocative art... oh yeah, this the stuff crime noir fans love!”
“Flawed genius is better than flawless talent.”
“Flawed Human Parents + Shit Life Throws At You = Childhood That 'Builds Character.”
Source: The Story of Us