“There’s nothing in the world more difficult than candor, and nothing easier than flattery.” — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
“Unfortunately, here as elsewhere on this touching planet, imitation is the watchword and prestige the highest ambition.” — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
I can spot empty flattery and know exactly where I stand. In the end it's really only my own approval or disapproval… — Agnetha Faltskog Copy Share Image
Never was flattery lost on a poet's ear; a simple race, they waste their toil for the vain tribute of a smile. — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
A little flattery makes people feel good about themselves. When you notice someone looking great, give them a compliment. — Ken Blanchard Copy Share Image
Telling a girl she's hot is flattering but telling a girl she's beautiful means so much more ... — Ana Chable Copy Share Image
Because all men are apt to flatter themselves, to entertain the addition of other men's praises is most perilous. — Walter Raleigh Copy Share Image
It's pleasant to hear these nice words while I'm still alive. I'd rather have the taffy than the epitaphy. — Chauncey Depew Copy Share Image
I wish it (Christianity) were more productive of good works ... I mean real good works ... not holy day keeping, sermon-hearing… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Never take for granted when people tell you everyday that you're beautiful and that they love you. Not everyone is interested in… — Terry Mark Copy Share Image
Of praise a mere glutton, he swallow'd what came, And the puff a dunce, he mistook it for fame; Till his relish… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
If solitude deprives of the benefit of advice, it also excludes from the mischief of flattery. But the absence of others' applause… — William Benton Clulow Copy Share Image
“He (LBJ) was smiling and deferential, but lots of guys can be smiling and deferential. He had something else. No matter what… — Tommy Corcoran Copy Share Image
The praise of an ignorant man is only good-will, and you should receive his kindness as he is a good neighbor in… — Richard Steele Copy Share Image
I believe that one becomes stronger emotionally by taking life less personally. If your employer criticizes your report, don't take it personally.… — Marilyn vos Savant Copy Share Image
Near this spot are deposited the remains of one who possessed beauty without vanity, strength without insolence, courage without ferocity, and all… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
Although I am small, ugly and dirty, I am highly ambitious, and at the slightest flattery, I immediately start to strut like… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
I am not one of those who left the land to the mercy of its enemies. Their flattery leaves me cold, my… — Anna Akhmatova Copy Share Image
They say that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery... Looks like you suck at that too… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The best form of flattery is to be admired, imitated or respected. I've always felt proud our fans look up to us… — Cheryl James Copy Share Image
The reason that adulation is not displeasing is that, though untrue, it shows one to be of consequence enough, in one way… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
If your enemies see that you grow courageous, and that you will neither be seduced by flatteries nor disheartened by the pains… — Henry Suso Copy Share Image
But even this piece of flattery couldn't distract me from the fact that I was in the center of the Fae realm,… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
They say imitation is the best form of flattery. That is particularly the case if you're a U.S. presidential candidate and pundits… — Chuck Norris Copy Share Image
Compliments and flattery oftenest excite my contempt by the pretension they imply; for who is he that assumes to flatter me? To… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Nature has hardly formed a woman ugly enough to be insensible to flattery upon her person; if her face is so shocking… — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
Imitation is the surest form of flattery and failure. I am not interested with your talk about my ideas. I am more… — Miyamoto Musashi Copy Share Image
Flattery is an ensnaring quality, and leaves a very dangerous impression. It swells a man's imagination, entertains his vanity, and drives him… — Jeremy Collier Copy Share Image
If men of eminence are exposed to censure on one hand, they are as much liable to flattery on the other. If… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
“I become quite melancholy and deeply grieved to see men behave to each other as they do. Everywhere I find nothing but… — Molière Copy Share Image
Nay, do not think I flatter. For what advancement may I hope from thee, That no revenue hast but thy good spirits… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
No wonder, Sir, that he is vain; a man who is perpetually flattered in every mode that can be conceived. So many… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Imitation is the best form of flattery; people generally understand that my comedy is not intended to hurt anybody. Occasionally, an actor… — Vivek Copy Share Image
One-year-olds learn concealment. Five-year-olds lie outright: they manipulate via flattery. Nine-year-olds - masters of the cover-up. By the time you enter college,… — Pamela Meyer Copy Share Image
“I'll read enough When I do see the very book indeed Where all my sins are writ, and that's myself. Give me… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Dogs live with man as courtiers 'round a monarch, steeped in the flattery of his notice ... to push their favor in… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
