Flattery Quotes
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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 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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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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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 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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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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Imitation is the sincerest 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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I am an actor and of course I respond very positively to flattery.
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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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Advertising - a judicious mixture of flattery and threats.
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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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I have always found it interesting... that there are people who regard copyright infringement as a form of flattery.
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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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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.
