Patience is a flatterer, sir, and an ass, sir.
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The Feigned Courtesans, Act III, sc. i (1679)Aphra Behn
You have heard me accused me of being a flatterer. It is true. I am a flatterer. I have found it useful. Everyone likes flattery; and when you come to Royalty you should lay it on with a trowel.
Benjamin Disraeli
The sea does not reward those who are too anxious, too greedy, or too impatient. To dig for treasures shows not only impatience and greed, but lack of faith. Patience, patience, patience, is what the sea teaches. Patience and faith. One should lie empty, open, choiceless as a beach — waiting for a gift from the sea.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Is Anna not patient in expectancy? Anyone who wants to harvest before he sows or as soon as he has sown, anyone who wants to be victorious without struggling, anyone who wants something but does not want the means is a fool in people’s eyes. Everyone believes that the expectant person needs some patience, and only the person who wants to cast away all patience, he alone is called impatient and childish in his impatience. Some patience! If a person were to go out into the world with this wisdom, he would find scarcely a single impatient person without some patience.
Soren Aabye Kierkegaard
I can't be your Friend, and your Flatterer too.
Thomas (writer) Fuller
I’d rather get bad news from an honest man than lies from a flatterer.
Ursula K. Le Guin
Behn, Aphra
Bechdel, Alison
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