Quotes by Lichtenberg, Georg C.

One cannot demand of a scholar that he show himself a scholar everywhe >>

There are people who possess not so much genius as a certain talent fo >>

If all else fails, the character of a man can be recognized by nothing >>

Quotations about Flattery

He that loves to be flattered is worthy of the flatterer. >>

I will praise any man that will praise me. >>

What really flatters a man is that you think him worth flattering. >>

He who says he hates every kind of flattery, and says it in earnest, certainly does not yet know every kind of flattery.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.