Flattery Quotes
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Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.
Edmund Burke
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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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The firmest purpose of a woman's heart to well-timed, artful flattery may yield.
George Lillo
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They told me I was everything. 'Tis a lie, I am not ague-proof.
William Shakespeare
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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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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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Flattery, if judiciously administered, is always acceptable, however much we may despise the flatterer.
Bill Vaughan
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Flattery'll get you anywhere.
Charles Lederer
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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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If you want to make an ordinary man happy, or think that he is happy, give him money, power, flattery, gifts, honours. If you want to make a wise man happy - improve yourself!
Idries Shah
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Flattery makes fools of the best of us.
Dorothy Salisbury Davis
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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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I like rudeness a great deal better than flattery.
Charlotte Bronte
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Nature has hardly formed a woman ugly enough to be insensible to flattery upon her person; if her face is so shocking that she must in some degree be conscious of it, her figure and her air, she trusts, make ample amends for it.
Bill Vaughan
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To thee, fair Freedom! I retire From flattery, cards, and dice, and din: Nor art thou found in mansions higher Than the low cot, or humble inn.
William Shenstone
