Flattery Quotes
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Never permit yourself to indulge in cheap flattery, which often times means to merely satisfy the individuals vanity and sometimes to ingratiate the flatter into the good graces of the flattered.
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Implementation is the sincerest form of flattery.
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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.
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Flattery is like a painted armor; only for show.
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There is no flattery so adroit or effectual as that of implicit assent.
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He does me double wrong That wounds me with the flatteries of his tongue.
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If imitation is the greatest form of flattery,
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Flattery must be pretty thick before anybody objects to it.
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Flattery has a short battery life, but reminding people they are amazing and precious and wanted and works of art can truly change their lives.
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Imitation is the sincerest flattery.
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The world's flattery and hypocrisy is a sweet morsel: eat less of it, for it is full of fire. Its fire is hidden while its taste is manifest, but its smoke becomes visible in the end.
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Though flattery blossoms like friendship, yet there is a vast difference in the fruit.
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I am an actor and of course I respond very positively to flattery.
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But here's the joy: my friend and I are one, Sweet flattery!
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There is no other way to guard yourself against flattery than by making men understand that telling you the truth will not offend you.
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Flattery is a lie covered in a bed of flowery words.
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A fool can no more see his own folly than he can see his ears.
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Slander, in the strict meaning of the term, comes under the head of lying; but it is a kind of lying which, like its antithesis flattery, ought to be set apart for special censure.
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The voice of flattery affects us after it has ceased, just as after a concert men find some agreeable air ringing in their ears to the exclusion of all serious business.
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If solitude deprives of the benefit of advice, it also excludes from the mischief of flattery. But the absence of others' applause is generally supplied by the flattery of one's own breast.
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The rich man despises those who flatter him too much, and hates those who do not flatter him at all.
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I have always found it interesting... that there are people who regard copyright infringement as a form of flattery.
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Advertising - a judicious mixture of flattery and threats.
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Flattery is praise without foundation.
