Some indeed there are who profess to despise all flattery, but even these are nevertheless to be flattered, by being told that… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
I look at my work and make up my mind about it. After that, neither flattery nor criticism matters to me. — Georgia O'Keeffe Copy Share Image
There is nothing which so poisons princes as flattery, nor anything whereby wicked men more easily obtain credit and favor with them. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
“Evidently you think I'm a fool who will easily succumb to flattery, or else your standards are quite low.” — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
In the best, the friendliest and simplest relations flattery or praise is necessary, just as grease is necessary to keep wheels turning. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
He who says he hates every kind of flattery, and says it in earnest, certainly does not yet know every kind of… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
The art of flatterers is to take advantage of the foibles of the great, to foster their errors, and never to give… — Moliere Copy Share Image
Copying is the greatest form of flattery, I guess. I am actually a little surprised that Vincent Lo didn't try and make… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
The noblest part of a friend is an honest boldness in the notifying of errors. He that tells me of a fault,… — Owen Feltham Copy Share Image
To a degree which is difficult to determine, the esoteric impulse in twentieth-century music, literature and the arts reflects calculation. It looks… — George Steiner Copy Share Image
What signifies protesting so against flattery when a person speaks well of one, it must either be true or false, you know… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Flattery is a challenge. The proper turning away from it, undercutting, diminishing it without offense or vehemence, is a social grace sweeter… — Elizabeth Hardwick Copy Share Image
Let those flatter, who fear: it is not an American art. To give praise where it is not due, might be well… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
For praise too dearly lov'd, or warmly sought, Enfeebles all internal strength of thought; And the weak soul within itself unblest, Leans… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
“Next day at the review the Tsar asked Prince Andrey where he desired to serve; and Bolkonsky ruined his chances for ever… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Flattery pleases very generally. In the first place, the flatterer may think what he says to be true; but, in the second… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Cooking is a form of flattery…a mischievous, deceitful, mean and ignoble activity, which cheats us by shapes and colors, by smoothing and… — Plato Copy Share Image
They say one of the greatest forms of flattery is for your son to follow in your footsteps. And so I enjoy… — Dennis Franchione Copy Share Image
“and even if she did find them ugly, she would never say so, because flattery had long since become second nature to… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“To flatter a young man, tell him that you thought that he was older than he is. To flatter an old woman,… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“Flattery will get you nowhere. (In response to Wally George calling his band vile and evil.)” — Nikolas Schreck Copy Share Image
The world is a severe schoolmaster, for its frowns are less dangerous than its smiles and flatteries, and it is a difficult… — Phillis Wheatley Copy Share Image
“Do you know what that’s like? How good it feels? For once in my life, someone wants me .” — Brynna Gabrielson Copy Share Image
“A great person or thing does not gain even a fraction of a single degree of greatness, when complimented; or lose it,… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Complimenting someone in an exaggerated way is known as flattery, and flattery will generally get you anything you want... — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Baloney is flattery laid on so thick it cannot be true, and blarney is flattery so thin we love it. — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
Our domestic Napoleons, too many of them, give flattery, bonnets and bracelets to women, and everything else but - justice. — Fanny Fern Copy Share Image
The habit of pleasing by flattery makes a language soft; the fear of offending by truth makes it circuitous and conventional. — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
There can hardly, I believe, be imagined a more desirable pleasure than that of praise unmixed with any possibility of flattery. — Richard Steele Copy Share Image
My passport photo is one of the most remarkable photographs I have ever seen- no retouching, no shadows, no flattery-just stark me. — Anne Morrow Lindbergh Copy Share Image
Flattery has a short battery life, but reminding people they are amazing and precious and wanted and works of art can truly… — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
“Flattery is as important a machine as the lever, isn't it, Saxonberg? Give it a proper place to rest, and it can… — E.L. Konigsburg Copy Share Image
The happy phrasing of a compliment is one of the rarest of human gifts, and the happy delivery of it another. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
We swallow with one gulp the lie that flatters us, and drink drop by drop the truth which is bitter to us. — Denis Diderot Copy Share Image
“Dostoevski's The Double is his best work though an obvious and shameless imitation of Gogol's "Nose.” — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
Gossip is saying behind their back what you would not say to their face. Flattery is saying to their face what you… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When one looks truly at the good side of everyone, others come to love him very naturally, and he does not need… — Abraham Isaac Kook Copy Share Image
We can often do more for other men by trying to correct our own faults than by trying to correct theirs. — Francois Fenelon Copy Share Image
Love of another is merely empty flattery and self-deception for one who cannot accept himself without pretense. — L.E. Modesitt Jr Copy Share Image
“It was napoleon who once observed how easy it is to win men over through flattery simply by bequeathing a title to… — Texe Marrs Copy Share Image
