Flattery Quotes

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

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

Nothing is so great an example of bad manners as flattery. If you flatter all the company, you please none; If you flatter only one or two, you offend the rest.

The love of one's own sex is precious, for it is neither provoked by vanity nor retained by flattery; it is genuine and sincere.

Advertising - a judicious mixture of flattery and threats.

Flattery is like chewing gum. Enjoy it but don't swallow it.

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

Immigration is the sincerest form of flattery.

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.

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

Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt, not swallowed.

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.

Flattery is all right so long as you don't inhale.

Imitation is obviously a great form of flattery.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.

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

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

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

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.

Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.

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

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

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.

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.