Flattery Quotes · Page 7

Nothing is harder to resist than a bit of flattery.

— Arnold Lobel

The most skillful flattery is to let a person talk on, and be a listener.

— Joseph Addison

What drink'st thou oft, instead of homage sweet, But poisoned flattery?

— William Shakespeare

Because nothing says flattery like a gun to the head.

— Jim Butcher

Flattery is all right so long as you don't inhale.

— Adlai E. Stevenson

Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.

— Edmund Burke

“Flattery is alright if you don't inhale.”

— Adlai Stevenson Samper

Flattery is from the teeth out. Sincere appreciation is from the heart out.

— Dale Carnegie

Sheer flattery got me into the theater. Flattery always works with me, particularly the flattery of women.

— Carroll O'Connor

Sometimes we think we dislike flattery, but it is only the way it is done that we dislike.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Women are hard and proud and stubborn-hearted, Their heads being turned with praise and flattery; And that is why their lovers are…

— William Butler Yeats

Flattery is no more than what raises in a man's mind an idea of a preference which he has not.

— Edmund Burke

There must be something wrong with my eyes, I can't take them off you. You are so fine, I wish I could…

— Paperboi

Women who are either indisputably beautiful, or indisputably ugly, are best flattered upon the score of their understandings.

— Lord Chesterfield

Note how good you feel after you have encouraged someone else. No other argument is necessary to suggest that never miss the…

— George Burton Adams

It has well been said that the arch-flatterer, with whom all petty flatterers have intelligence, is a man's self.

— Francis Bacon

We sometimes think that we hate flattery, but we only hate the manner in which it is done. [Fr., On croit quelquefoir…

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The voice of flattery affects us after it has ceased, just as after a concert men find some agreeable air ringing in…

— Seneca the Younger

Women who are either indisputably beautiful, or indisputably ugly, are best flattered upon the score of their understandings; but those who are…

— Lord Chesterfield

I have always hated biography, and more especially, autobiography. If biography, the writer invariably finds it necessary to plaster the subject with…

— Carolyn Wells

Blinded as they are to their true character by self-love, every man is his own first and chiefest flatterer, prepared, therefore, to…

— Plutarch

A woman's flattery may inflate a man's head a little; but her criticism goes straight to his heart, and contracts it so…

— Helen Rowland

Whenever somebody folds, say, 'Good laydown.' It encourages them to fold on a later hand because it makes them feel like you…

— Cheryl Hines

Sometimes, idealistic people are put off the whole business of networking as something tainted by flattery and the pursuit of selfish advantage.…

— Sonia Sotomayor

It's my uniform. Everyone in my company wears it." "It's hideous." Rose felt her hackles rise. The neon green uniform was hideous,…

— Ilona Andrews

The most ridiculous concept ever perpetrated by Homo Sapiens is that the Lord God of Creation, Shaper and Ruler of the Universes,…

— Robert A. Heinlein

Whosoever shall look heedfully upon those who are eminent for their riches will not think their condition such as that he should…

— Samuel Johnson

I'm not a nostalgic person for the glory days of 8-track sales at the local K-Mart. But there's a little bit of…

— Tim Hecker

Tis a barbarous temper, and a sign of a very ill nature, to take delight in shocking any one: and, on the…

— Samuel Richardson

After watching the State of the Union address the other night [1994], I'm reminded of the old adage that imitation is the…

— Ronald Reagan

Sycophancy toward those who hold power is a fact in every regime, and especially in a democracy, where, unlike tyranny, there is…

— Allan Bloom

A man who does not love praise is not a full man.

— Henry Ward Beecher

It is easier and handier for men to flattery than to praise.

— Jean Paul

I hate careless flattery, the kind that exhausts you in your efforts to believe it.

— Wilson Mizner

Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt, not swallowed.

— Josh Billings

When a woman has not received much flattery in her life, she will be seduced.

— Melina Marchetta

He does me double wrong That wounds me with the flatteries of his tongue.

— William Shakespeare

Alas! the praise given to the ear Ne'er was nor ne'er can be sincere.

— Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Flattery is false coin that is only current thanks to our vanity.

— François De La Rochefoucauld

The gallantry of the mind consists in agreeable flattery.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld