Katherine Kenton remains among the generation of women who feel that the most sincere form of flattery is the male erection. — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
“Flattery is so necessary to all of us that we flatter one another to be flattered in return” — Marjorie Bowen Copy Share Image
Women have, in general, but ne object, which is their beauty; upon which, scarce any flattery is too gross for them to… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
“Behind the flattery, the edge of mockery was plain to anyone who must, as a matter of survival, learn to detect it.… — Shani Mootoo Copy Share Image
It is scarcely credible to what degree discernment may be dazzled by the mist of pride, and wisdom infatuated by the intoxication… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Flattery is saying something nice in order to help yourself. Encouragement is saying something true in order help someone else. — Kevin DeYoung Copy Share Image
I dont like it when some guys try to flatter me because I never trust anyone who compliments me more than the… — Xandra Escorsa Copy Share Image
“She said, “You disgust me. How do you live with yourself?” So I said, “Like I live with my clone: with many… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
“Death threats from the ignorant, the criminal, the dishonest, and the ideologue, not the plagiarisms of the envious, is the sincerest form… — Thomas W. Knowles Copy Share Image
The most that can be said of flattery is that it is sometimes a cheap psychological trick with which charlatans and dishonest… — Napoleon Hill Copy Share Image
I trust it will not be giving away professional secrets to say that many readers would be surprised, perhaps shocked, at the… — Kate Chopin Copy Share Image
“If a story is w/out flaws or doubts, it is flattery or even brainwashing. You should read it as if drinking a… — Vinko Vrbanic Copy Share Image
I think I misunderstood the following in the footsteps bit, in a few of my early drinking years. I'd take any form… — Jason Bonham Copy Share Image
“Apprenez que tout flatteur Vit aux dépens de celui qui l'écoute : Cette leçon vaut bien un fromage, sans doute. Flatterers thrive… — Jean de La Fontaine Copy Share Image
The heights of popularity and patriotism are still the beaten road to power and tyranny; flattery to treachery; standing armies to arbitrary… — David Hume Copy Share Image
There is no detraction worse than to overpraise a man, for if his worth proves short of what report doth speak of… — Owen Feltham Copy Share Image
There is no other way to guard yourself against flattery than by making men understand that telling you the truth will not… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I have already settled it for myself so flattery and criticism go down the same drain and I am quite free. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Every man kills the things that he loves. Some with a look, some with flattery, the coward with a kiss. — Eric Jerome Dickey Copy Share Image
“If imitation is the highest form of flattery, than Christians have become pop culture’s most devoted admirers.” — Skye Jethani Copy Share Image
Confidence, as opposed, to modesty and distinguished from decent assurance, proceeds from self-opinion, and is occasioned by ignorance and flattery. — Jeremy Collier Copy Share Image
None are more taken in by flattery than the proud, who wish to be the first and are not. — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
Madam, before you flatter a man so grossly to his face, you should consider whether or not your flattery is worth his… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The ambitious are forever followed by adulation for they receive the most pleasure from flattery. — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
It is better to fall among crows than flatterers; for those devour only the dead - these the living. — Antisthenes Copy Share Image
Though flattery blossoms like friendship, yet there is a vast difference in the fruit. — Socrates Copy Share Image
There is not one of us that would not be worse than kings, if so continually corrupted as they are with a… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
The man that lays his hand upon a woman, Save in the way of kindness, is a wretch Whom't were gross flattery… — John M. Tobin, Jr Copy Share Image
One may define flattery as a base companionship which is most advantageous to the flatterer. — Theophrastus Copy Share Image
Flattery is never so agreeable as to our blind side; commend a fool for his wit, or a knave for his honesty,… — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
“The man was a bully. A bully who'd elevated himself to a high-level position, but a bully just the same. No amount… — Gwenda Bond Copy Share Image
“emulation is a sincere form of flattery, but individuality is the only form of immortality.” — Corey Taylor Copy Share Image
Imitation is the highest form of flattery, but clones kind of get it wrong because we are promoting individuality and being proud… — Brian Molko Copy Share Image
Flattery's fire is hidden. Its sweet taste is apparent, but the smoke is bound to come out at last. — Rumi Copy Share Image
The aim of flattery is to soothe and encourage us by assuring us of the truth of an opinion we have already… — Edith Sitwell Copy Share Image
Patron: One who countenances, supports or protects. Commonly a wretch who supports with insolence, and is repaid in flattery. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The love of one's own sex is precious, for it is neither provoked by vanity nor retained by flattery; it is genuine… — Maria Mitchell Copy Share Image
Flattery looks like friendship, just like a wolf looks like a dog. Food for thought is no substitute for the real thing. — Walt Kelly Copy Share Image
The heart of a woman is never so full of affection that there does not remain a little corner for flattery and… — Pierre de Marivaux Copy Share Image
Working with Dilip Kumar sahib I observed that he was not someone who would be happy with flattery. He only liked good… — Manoj Kumar Copy Share Image
