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" You have heard me called a flatterer," he said to Matthew Arnold, "and it is true. Everyone likes flattery; and when you come to royalty you should lay it on with a trowel. "
Queen Victoria - Página 347
por Lytton Strachey - 1921 - 434 páginas
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Collections and Recollections

George William Erskine Russell - 1898 - 398 páginas
...heard me accused of being a flatterer. It is true. I am a flatterer. I have found it useful. Every one likes flattery ; and when you come to Royalty you should lay it on with a trowel." As a courtier Lord Beacousfield excelled. Once, sitting at dinner by the Princess of Wales, he was...
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Collections and Recollections

George William Erskine Russell - 1898 - 410 páginas
...heard me accused of being a flatterer. It is true. I am a flatterer. I have found it useful. Every one likes flattery ; and when you come to Royalty you should lay it on with a trowel." As a courtier Lord Beaconsfield excelled. Once, sitting at dinner by the Princess of Wales, he was...
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Collections and Recollections

George William Erskine Russell - 1898 - 398 páginas
...heard me accused of being a flatterer. It is true. I am a flatterer. I have found it useful. Every one likes flattery; and when you come to Royalty you should lay it on with a trowel." As a courtier Lord Bcaconsfield excelled. Once, sitting at dinner by the Princess of Wales, he was...
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SOCIAL SILHOUETTES

GEORGE W. E. RUSSELL - 1906 - 348 páginas
...and base. " Every one likes flattery," said Lord Beaconsfield, who knew what he was talking about, "and when you come to Royalty you should lay it on with a trowel." His practice exactly accorded with his theory, and, when he bracketed the most illustrious Personage...
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Social Silhouettes

George William Erskine Russell - 1906 - 348 páginas
...and base. " Every one likes flattery," said Lord Beaconsfield, who knew what he was talking about, " and when you come to Royalty you should lay it on with a trowel." His practice exactly accorded with his theory, and, when he bracketed the most illustrious Personage...
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Portraits of the Seventies

George William Erskine Russell - 1916 - 1322 páginas
...lost. "You have heard me called a flatterer." Arnold could not deny it. "Yes, and it is true. Every one likes flattery; and, when you come to Royalty, you should lay it on with a trowel." Lord Beaconsfield had always been fond of exercising hospitality, but he only gave one dinner in Curzon...
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The Life of Benjamin Disraeli: Earl of Beaconsfield, Volumen6

William Flavelle Monypenny, George Earle Buckle - 1920 - 762 páginas
...Arnold, in a conversation shortly before his death, he said : ' You have heard me called a flatterer, and it is true. Everyone likes flattery; and, when...come to royalty, you should lay it on with a trowel.' But the Queen was too much inured to flattery to care for it. Indeed those whom she suspected of concealing...
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De gids: nieuwe vaderlandsche letteroefeningen, Volumen84,Parte4

1920 - 526 páginas
...betreurden A^bert zijn verdwenen! „Every one likes flattery," zei Disraeli eens tot Matthew Arnold, „and, when you come to royalty, you should lay it on with a trowel." Inderdaad, in 1861 had hij aan de koningin in haar smart over den dood van haar echtgenoot durven schrijven:...
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The Prime Ministers of Britain, 1721-1921

Charles Clive Bigham Mersey (Viscount) - 1922 - 472 páginas
...himself admitted. Late in life he once said to Matthew Arnold: " You have heard me called a flatterer, and it is true. Everyone likes flattery; and when you come to Royalty you should lay it on with a trowel."t Another remark that he made to Lord Esher of speaking to the Queen was: "I never deny; I...
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Progressive Readings in Prose

Rudolph Wilson Chamberlain, Joseph Sheldon Gerry Bolton - 1923 - 396 páginas
...Faery's heart. Accordingly, he never for a moment allowed his intercourse with her to lose the persona) tone; he invested all the transactions of State with...come to royalty you should lay it on with a trowel." He practised what he preached. His adulation was incessant, and he applied it in the very thickest...
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