Flattery Quotes
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Flattery is like chewing gum. Enjoy it but don't swallow it.
Hank Ketcham
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If you had told Sycorax that her son Caliban was as handsome as Apollo, she would have been pleased, witch as she was.
William Makepeace Thackeray
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The firmest purpose of a woman's heart to well-timed, artful flattery may yield.
George Lillo
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The aim of flattery is to soothe and encourage us by assuring us of the truth of an opinion we have already formed about ourselves.
Edith Sitwell
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Flattery, though a base coin, is the necessary pocket money at court; where, by custom and consent, it has obtained such a currency that it is no longer a fraudulent, but a legal payment.
Bill Vaughan
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Flattery, if judiciously administered, is always acceptable, however much we may despise the flatterer.
Bill Vaughan
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They told me I was everything. 'Tis a lie, I am not ague-proof.
William Shakespeare
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Imitation is not just the sincerest form of flattery - it's the sincerest form of learning.
George Bernard Shaw
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Let it not, therefore, be said that the Sovereign is not subject to the laws of his State; since the contrary is a true proposition of the right of nations, which flattery has sometimes attacked but good princes have always defended as the tutelary divinity of their dominions. How much more legitimate is it to say with the wise Plato, that the perfect felicity of a kingdom consists in the obedience of subjects to their prince, and of the prince to the laws, and in the laws being just and constantly directed to the public good!
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Our domestic Napoleons, too many of them, give flattery, bonnets and bracelets to women, and everything else but - justice.
Sara Willis
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Flattery'll get you anywhere.
Charles Lederer
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Flattery of the verbal kind is gross. In short, applause is of too coarse a nature to be swallowed in the gross, though the extract or tincture be ever so agreeable.
William Shenstone
