Sarcasm is the lowest form of humor but the highest form of flattery. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Sometimes, you can learn more from criticism than you can from flattery. — Doug McMillon Copy Share Image
Money is the sincerest of all flattery. Women love to be flattered. So do men. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
“I live on shameless flattery...and vodka...but the two usually go hand in hand.” — V. Vee Copy Share Image
Never patronise someone who knows they don't deserve it, for they will be quick to compliment your failures. — John Stride Copy Share Image
But it is hard to know them from friends, they are so obsequious and full of protestations; for a wolf resembles a… — Walter Raleigh Copy Share Image
With imitation being the sincerest form of flattery, I went out there and wanted to be Shawn Michaels 2. — Christopher Daniels Copy Share Image
I would give worlds, could I believe One-half that is profess'd me; Affection! could I think it Thee, When Flattery has caress'd… — Letitia Elizabeth Landon Copy Share Image
Flatter me, and I may not believe you. Criticise me, and I may not like you. Ignore me, and I may not… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
'T is an old maxim in the schools, That flattery 's the food of fools; Yet now and then your men of… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
“It flattered her, where she was most susceptible of flattery, to think how, wound about in their hearts, however long they lived… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
We would seldom be deceived by flattery, did our own conceit not promote the delusion. — Norm MacDonald Copy Share Image
Always try to grow in your garden some plant or plants out of the ordinary, something your neighbors never attempted. For you… — Richardson Wright Copy Share Image
Women of no beauty may yet be flattered to believe they possess some; others of a moderate share that they have a… — Norm MacDonald Copy Share Image
Never permit yourself to indulge in cheap flattery, which often times means to merely satisfy the individuals vanity and sometimes to ingratiate… — Harold B. Lee Copy Share Image
Gone are the days when imitation equalled flattery. What happens today, is essentially an entire generation looking outward - not for inspiration,… — Shweta Bachchan Nanda Copy Share Image
Praise is a more ingenious, concealed, and subtle kind of flattery, that satisfies both the giver and the receiver, though by verydifferent… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
We are not fond of praising, and never praise any one except from interested motives. Praise is a clever, concealed, and delicate… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Praise is flattery, artful, hidden, delicate, which gratifies differently him who praises and him who is praised. The one takes it as… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
LA runs on optimism, enthusiasm and flattery. I think you can go a little bit crazy... It's just too damn sunny in… — Hugh Laurie Copy Share Image
Both in thy private sessions, and the universal assizes, thou shalt be sure of the same Judge, the same jury, the same… — Thomas Adams Copy Share Image
“Affirmation, in contrast to flattery, requires seeing someone well enough to sense what to affirm, knowing someone well enough to be aware… — Dale Carnegie Copy Share Image
I recommend to you, in my last, an innocent piece of art: that of flattering people behind their backs, in presence of… — Doug Stanhope Copy Share Image
Yes, Boss?' Dorcas, the last twenty or thirty years I've been a worthless, no-good parasite.' She yawned again. 'Everybody knows that.' Nevermind… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
We rightly scorn those who have no made use of their defects, who have not exploited their deficiencies, and have not been… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In short, no association or alliance can be happy or stable without me. People can't long tolerate a ruler, nor can a… — Desiderius Erasmus Copy Share Image
“What’s flattery?” “Flattery,” Wendy told him, “is when your daddy says he likes my new yellow slacks even if he doesn’t or… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“The most preposterous notion that Homo sapiens has ever dreamed up is that the Lord God of Creation, Shaper and Ruler of… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
A fool can no more see his own folly than he can see his ears. — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
O Beauty, find thyself in love, not in the flattery of thy mirror. — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
Flattery is a counterfeit money which, but for vanity, would have no circulation. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
