Flattery Quotes
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Flattery makes fools of the best of us.
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Implementation is the sincerest form of flattery.
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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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Flattery is like a painted armor; only for show.
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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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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.
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If imitation is the greatest form of flattery,
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He does me double wrong That wounds me with the flatteries of his tongue.
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Flattery must be pretty thick before anybody objects to it.
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Flattery in courtship is the highest insolence, for whilst it pretends to bestow on you more than you deserve, it is watching an opportunity to take from you what you really have.
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Though flattery blossoms like friendship, yet there is a vast difference in the fruit.
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Imitation is the sincerest flattery.
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Flattery succeeds best on minds previously occupied by conceit.
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There is no flattery so adroit or effectual as that of implicit assent.
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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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Sheer flattery got me into the theater. Flattery always works with me, particularly the flattery of women.
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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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Flattery is a lie covered in a bed of flowery words.
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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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A fool can no more see his own folly than he can see his ears.
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Flattery is praise without foundation.
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Persons who discover a flatterer, do not always disapprove him, because he imagines them considerable enough to deserve his applications.
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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.
