Misquotation is quotology’s swamp. Amateur quoters mix and mangle Shakespeare and Scripture. Professors gaffe and printers bungle. It’s a mess we mus…

- Willis Regier

If you flatter yourself properly you will be better able to enjoy yourself. Stretch your joy so that others enjoy you too.

- Willis Regier

Quotation lovers love rare words.

- Willis Regier

Great quotation collections glean the millennia, distill essences, and battle for bragging rights about who’s bigger, who’s smarter, who’s best. Who-…

- Willis Regier

At its best, flattery is truth well dressed, and it is best dressed with fine see-through fabrics. Honest flattery can caress a lover, cover up a gaf…

- Willis Regier

Flattery works like a drug.

- Willis Regier

In phrases as brief as a breath worldly wisdom concentrates.

- Willis Regier

Quotologists encounter happy surprises, bright books by faded authors, treasures hidden under dust.

- Willis Regier

Excellent flatterers welcome attentive audiences; mighty potentates enjoy public praise. In the most pleasing situation, a flatterer would genuinely …

- Willis Regier