We sometimes think that we hate flattery, but we only hate the manner in which it is done.

No matter how much we ask after the truth, self-awareness is often unpleasant. We do not feel kindly toward the Truthsayer.

we often refuse to accept an idea merely because the way in which it has been expressed is unsympathetic to us.

Self-love sees to it that the person who flatters us is never our greatest flatterer

Flattery takes away the capacity of the listener to make a rational, unbiased opinion.

We have no patience with other people's vanity because it is offensive to our own.

350. — Why we hate with so much bitterness those who deceive us is because they think themselves more clever than we are.

Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver, and adulation is not of more service to the people than to kings.

Beware of flatterers, especially when they come preaching hatred.

In time we hate that which we often fear.

We hate old friends: we hate old books: we hate old opinions; and at last we come to hate ourselves.

The bottom line is that we never fall for the people we're supposed to.

a principle that can't bear being laughed at, frowned on, and cold-shouldered, is n't worthy of the name.

She says it's really not very flattering to her that the women who fall in love with her husband are so uncommonly second-rate.