The eyes of men love to pluck the blossoms from the faded flowers they turn away. — Sophocles Copy Share Image
Few human beings are proof against the implied flattery of rapt attention. — Jack Woodford Copy Share Image
A man who flatters a woman hopes either to find her a fool or to make her one. — Samuel Richardson Copy Share Image
A few good compliments produce a wealth of good and often financial benefits. — Mariette Hartley Copy Share Image
A flatterer never seems absurd: The flatter'd always takes his word. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Backstabbers will almost always seek to gain your trust, and this usually involves some form or flattery on their part. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Ausonius must be read to be believed! As poet, no subject is too trivial for him; as courtier, no flattery too excessive. — Decimius Magnus Ausonius Copy Share Image
“I will show partiality to no one, nor will I flatter any man; for if I were skilled in flattery, my Maker… — Deborah Smith Pegues Copy Share Image
Nothing in this world is harder than speaking the truth, nothing easier than flattery. — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
“Revel in the fulsome flattery, dear fool! It does not stop war from being a filthy trick.” — Joseph E. Persico Copy Share Image
Imitation is for shirkers, like-minded-ness for the comfort lovers, unifying for the creators. — Mary Parker Follett Copy Share Image
Men sometimes think they hate flattery, but they hate only the manner of flattering. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Praise a stranger with a few nice words and he becomes a stranger that calls you a friend. — Simon Cowell Copy Share Image
Flattery and deceit are the darlings of great men, and so with these men spread the butter on thick, if you want… — Pietro Aretino Copy Share Image
Since you are my readers, and I have not been much of a traveler, I will not talk about people a thousand… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
This flattery has been rather slow in coming. I think all of sudden late in life now I'm getting some credit for… — Jack Vance Copy Share Image
“There are three types of intelligent persons: the first so intelligent that being called very intelligent must seem natural and obvious; the… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
Hope means hoping when things are hopeless, or it is no virtue at all... As long as matters are really hopeful, hope… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I get out my work and have a show for myself before I have it publicly. I make up my own mind… — Georgia O'Keeffe Copy Share Image
Flatterers are the worst kind of traitors, for they will strengthen thy imperfections, encourage thee in all evils, correct thee in nothing,… — Walter Raleigh Copy Share Image
But, perhaps, the flatterer is not often detected; for an honest mind is not apt to suspect, and no one exerts the… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Solitude is the surest nurse of all prurient passions, and a girl in the hurry of preparation, or tumult of gaiety, has… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“To a woman flattery is not flattery.It is a compliment, which unfortunately in these miserable days has become all to rare. A… — Erich Maria Remarque Copy Share Image
“Had I known you were waiting, Miss MacFarlane, I would not have lingered,I assure you." Flattery was something she knew how to… — Karen Hawkins Copy Share Image
Excellent flatterers welcome attentive audiences; mighty potentates enjoy public praise. In the most pleasing situation, a flatterer would genuinely admire the flatteree,… — Willis Regier Copy Share Image
I do not know whether anyone has ever succeeded in not enjoying praise. And, if he enjoys it, he naturally wants to… — John Chrysostom Copy Share Image
The girl was grateful to the young man for every bit of flattery; she wanted to linger for a moment in its… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
The people at the very top could fall by and grace you with their presence and give you a little largesse, and… — Joshua Ferris Copy Share Image
There are some who affect a want of affectation, and flatter themselves that they are above flattery; they are proud of being… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
The voice of history is often little more than the organ of hatred or flattery. — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery that mediocrity can pay to greatness. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I must be a snowflake, because I've fallen for you. Are you an interior decorator? — Paperboi Copy Share Image
