Should the poor be flattered? No; let the candied tongue lick absurd pomp, and crook the pregnant hinges of the knee where… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
No flattery, boy! an honest man cannot live by it; it is a little, sneaking art, which knaves use to cajole and… — Thomas Otway 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
The world is grown so full of dissimulation and compliment, that men's words are hardly any signification of their thoughts. — Richard Steele Copy Share Image
The voice of history is often little more than the organ of hatred or flattery. — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
Men are like stone jugs - you may lug them where you like by the ears. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Nothing is so great an example of bad manners as flattery. If you flatter all the company, you please none; If you… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
We love flattery, even though we are not deceived by it, because it shows that we are of importance enough to be… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Complimenting someone in an exaggerated way is known as flattery, and flattery will generally get you anything you want... — Anonymous Copy Share Image
flattery would be worse than vain; there is no consolation in flattery. — Charlotte Bronte 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
To pay attention to flattery or criticism is a waste of time for artists. — John McLaughlin Copy Share Image
Gossip involves saying behind a person’s back what you would never say to his or her face. Flattery means saying to a… — R. Kent Hughes Copy Share Image
Few human beings are proof against the implied flattery of rapt attention. — Jack Woodford Copy Share Image
Slander, in the strict meaning of the term, comes under the head of lying; but it is a kind of lying which,… — Washington Gladden Copy Share Image
Some indeed there are who profess to despise all flattery, but even these are nevertheless to be flattered, by being told that… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Listening, not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery. . . . If you want to influence someone, listen to what… — Joyce Brothers Copy Share Image
In my experience, there are two things that no one will admit to: having no sense of humor and being susceptible to… — Margaret George 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
To experience commitment as the loss of options, a type of death, the death of childhood's limitless possibility, of the flattery of… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
When a woman has not received much flattery in her life, she will be seduced. — Melina Marchetta Copy Share Image
There is no tongue that flatters like a lover's; and yet, in the exaggeration of his feelings, flattery seems to him commonplace.… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
