The firmest purpose of a woman's heart to well-timed, artful flattery may yield. — George Lillo Copy Share Image
The habitude 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
The world's flattery and hypocrisy is a sweet morsel: eat less of it, for it is full of fire. Its fire is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Imitation is the greatest form of flattery, but worship is the greatest form of adoration.” — Jayce O'Neal Copy Share Image
It is better to fall among crows than flatterers; for those devour only the dead - these the living. — Antisthenes 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
We would seldom be deceived by flattery, did our own conceit not promote the delusion. — Norm MacDonald Copy Share Image
I trust it will not be giving away professional secrets to say that many readers would be surprised, perhaps shocked, at the… — Kate Chopin Copy Share Image
Love of flattery, in most men, proceeds from the mean opinion they have of themselves; in women, from the contrary. — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
What really flatters a man is that you think him worth flattering. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
There would be no sunshine in society if the born flatterers, I mean the so-called amiable people, did not bring it in… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Now flattery can never do good; twice cursed in the giving and the receiving, it ought to be. — Maria Edgeworth Copy Share Image
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 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
Every woman is infallibly to be gained by every sort of flattery, and every man by one sort or other. — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
If you want to make an ordinary man happy, or think that he is happy, give him money, power, flattery, gifts, honours.… — Idries Shah 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
Women who are either indisputably beautiful, or indisputably ugly, are best flattered upon the score of their understandings. — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
Okay, I'm flattered, I appreciate your attempt at making me feel better after the fiasco with the pita rolls, but please ring… — Amanda Filipacchi 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
