«FLATTERY»的英语 引用
单词
flattery的知名引用和例句
Between flattery and admiration there often flows a river of contempt.
Flattery and deceit are the darlings of great men, and so with these men spread the butter on thick, if you want to get something out of them, otherwise you'll come home to me with a full belly and an empty purse.
Imitation is flattery, and The Hills Have Eyes is a classic.
Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt, not swallowed.
Listening, not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery.
Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.
Although I am small, ugly and dirty, I am highly ambitious, and at the slightest flattery, I immediately start to strut like a turkey.
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.
To ask advice is in nine cases out of ten to tout for flattery.
Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.
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This is a book for those who would understand the history, tactics, and pleasures of flattery, not least the thrill of danger. ¯ ?O, flatter me, for love delights in praises.
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Friendship,
Flattery, and Frankness of Speech: Studies on ...
The essays examine this triad in Philodemus and Plutarch, discuss Paul's use of friendship language in Philippians, and explore the concept of parrhesia in Paul, Acts, Hebrews, and the Johannine corpus.
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You're Too Kind: A Brief History of
Flattery
From the primates to the ancient world all the way to Hollywood, "You're Too Kind" presents a primer on flattery--where it originated, its development through the ages, and its myriad uses in contemporary culture.
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Foghorn
Flattery and the Vanishing Rhinos
Barbara Steiner. else can.” Foghorn came to meet Minto, too. He extended his
hand. “I'm glad to meet you. Do you live around here?” “Sure.” Minto shook
Foghorn's hand and continued to smile. “My village near here. You comeand visit
.
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Vicious Praise:
Flattery in Late Medieval English Politics ...
This dissertation argues that late medieval English literature was often forced to define itself against and around the problem of flattery, a notion which was used to encapsulate a wide range of cultural and linguistic corruptions.
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Foghorn
Flattery and the Dancing Horses
When a Vienna show horse is stolen, the Flattery siblings will stop at nothing to find the steed and solve the case C.C. and Foghorn Flattery love traveling around the world with their dad for his freelance writing assignments.
Tliis almost universal use of flattery seems to result from a principle in human
nature. Men prefer to hear something pleasing rather than the cold truth ; and if
truth and pleasantry do not coincide they prefer the latter. Flattery answers this
desire; ...
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A Dictionary of American Proverbs
5. Flattery butters no parsnips. Rec. dist.: Ohio. 6. Flattery is a vice disguised as a
virtue. Rec. dist.: Ill. 7. Flattery is like an empty tomb on which friendship is
inscribed. Rec. dist.: Mich. 8. Flattery is not a proof of true admiration. Rec. dist.:
Kans.
Wolfgang Mieder, Stewart A. Kingsbury, Kelsie B. Harder,
1992
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A Dictionary of Poetical Illustrations: Specially Selected ...
I pass through flattery's gilded sieve Whatever I would say. — Miss London. 1276.
FLATTERY. Baseness of No adulation ; 'tis the death of virtue ! Who flatters is of
all mankind the lowest, Save he who courts the flatterer. Hannah More. 1277.
Robert Aitkin Bertram,
1877
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Summa Theologica, Volume 3 (Part II, Second Section)
W12 must now consider the vices opposed to the aforesaid virtue: (1) Flattery,
and (2) Quarreling. Concerning flattery there are two points of inquiry: (1)
Whether flattery is a sin? (2) Whether it is a mortal sin? FIRST ARTICLE Whether
Flaflery ls ...
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Setting the Record Straight on Switching Jobs
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The GOP doesn't have a Donald Trump problem. It has an angry …
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Trump is a bad deal for the GOP
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Van Halen's 1978 Debut Album Turned Rock Music Around and …
Eddie recently said to Billboard of his '80s-era imitators: “I did not take it as flattery.” Years ago, I asked David Lee Roth about Van Halen's ... «Radio.com Music and Entertainment News, 七月 15»