I once had a rose named after me and I was very flattered. But I was not pleased to read the description in the catalogue: no good in a bed but fine up against a wall.

Flattery is like cologne water to be smelt not swallowed.

Do not let a flattering woman coax and wheedle you and deceive you she is after your barn.

Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person the more necessary do tact and courtesy become.

Much literary criticism comes from people for whom extreme specialization is a cover for either grave cerebral inadequacy or terminal laziness the latter being a much cherished aspect of academic freedom.

When we are unwilling to draw clear moral lines between free societies and fear societies when we are unwilling to call the former good and the latter evil we will not be able to advance the cause of peace because peace cannot be disconnected from freedom.

For all of those willing to help me start a family I am flattered. I will let you know when I need your help.

In the latter case life rests upon a thousand presuppositions which the individual can never trace back to their origins and verify but which he must accept upon faith and belief.

Flatter not thyself in thy faith in God if thou hast not charity for thy neighbor.

Faith is different from proof the latter is human the former is a Gift from God.