Flattery Quotes
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Implementation is the sincerest form of flattery.
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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!
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Flattery makes fools of the best of us.
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Flattery is like a painted armor; only for show.
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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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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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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 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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Imitation is the sincerest flattery.
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Flattery must be pretty thick before anybody objects to it.
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Flattery succeeds best on minds previously occupied by conceit.
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Though flattery blossoms like friendship, yet there is a vast difference in the fruit.
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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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There is no flattery so adroit or effectual as that of implicit assent.
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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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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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Flattery is praise without foundation.
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A fool can no more see his own folly than he can see his ears.
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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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There is no other way to guard yourself against flattery than by making men understand that telling you the truth will not offend you.
