Flattery Quotes

Imitation is obviously a great form of flattery.

Between flattery and admiration there often flows a river of contempt.

Sheer flattery got me into the theater. Flattery always works with me, particularly the flattery of women.

The aim of flattery is to soothe and encourage us by assuring us of the truth of an opinion we have already formed about ourselves.

Flattery and insults raise the same question: What do you want?

To ask advice is in nine cases out of ten to tout for flattery.

Imitation is the highest form of flattery, but clones kind of get it wrong because we are promoting individuality and being proud of being yourself.

One may define flattery as a base companionship which is most advantageous to the flatterer.

Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.

A woman's flattery may inflate a man's head a little; but her criticism goes straight to his heart, and contracts it so that it can never again hold quite as much love for her.

Gossip is what you say about the objects of flattery when they aren't present.

I hate careless flattery, the kind that exhausts you in your efforts to believe it.

Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.

This flattery has been rather slow in coming. I think all of sudden late in life now I'm getting some credit for what I've done. Which is gratifying, but it's kind of a little late.

The flattery of posterity is not worth much more than contemporary flattery, which is worth nothing.

The flattery is nice, but awards don't add up to writing quality songs.

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.

Baloney is flattery laid on so thick it cannot be true, and blarney is flattery so thin we love it.

Imitation is flattery, and The Hills Have Eyes is a classic.

I can spot empty flattery and know exactly where I stand. In the end it's really only my own approval or disapproval that means anything.

A little flattery will support a man through great fatigue.

If we did not flatter ourselves, the flattery of others could never harm us.

Imitation is the sincerest flattery.

We should keep silent about those in power; to speak well of them almost implies flattery; to speak ill of them while they are alive is dangerous, and when they are dead is cowardly.

Said I was beautiful, did he? He's being paid for treatment, not flattery.

He who says he hates every kind of flattery, and says it in earnest, certainly does not yet know every kind of flattery.

Knavery and flattery are blood relations.

Everyone likes flattery; and when you come to Royalty you should lay it on with a trowel.

The best form of flattery is to be admired, imitated or respected. I've always felt proud our fans look up to us or feel we are inspirational.

None are more taken in by flattery than the proud, who wish to be the first and are not.