Flattery Quotes
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Our domestic Napoleons, too many of them, give flattery, bonnets and bracelets to women, and everything else but - justice.
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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 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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He does me double wrong That wounds me with the flatteries of his tongue.
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There is no flattery so adroit or effectual as that of implicit assent.
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If imitation is the greatest form of flattery,
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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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Though flattery blossoms like friendship, yet there is a vast difference in the fruit.
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Flattery must be pretty thick before anybody objects to it.
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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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Imitation is the sincerest flattery.
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I am an actor and of course I respond very positively to flattery.
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A fool can no more see his own folly than he can see his ears.
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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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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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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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Flattery is praise without foundation.
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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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Advertising - a judicious mixture of flattery and threats.
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We never slam the door on flattery, we nudge it shut like a man rejecting his mistress: if she nudges back, we're delighted and if she breaks it down, we rejoice.
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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.
