Flattery Quotes

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.