Money is the sincerest of all flattery. Women love to be flattered. So do men. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
The happy phrasing of a compliment is one of the rarest of human gifts, and the happy delivery of it another. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The ambitious are forever followed by adulation for they receive the most pleasure from flattery. — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
The aim of flattery is to soothe and encourage us by assuring us of the truth of an opinion we have already… — Edith Sitwell Copy Share Image
Flattery was one of Kissinger's principal tools in winning over Nixon, and a tool he employed shamelessly. — Robert Dallek 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
Human life is thus only a perpetual illusion; men deceive and flatter each other. No one speaks of us in our presence… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Everyone likes flattery; and when you come to Royalty you should lay it on with a trowel. — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
Flattery is telling the other person precisely what he thinks about himself. — Dale Carnegie Copy Share Image
Many a maid have I won by a quarrel, when flattery was in no wise helpful; but take heed that thou art… — Gelett Burgess Copy Share Image
Flatterers are the worst kind of enemies. [Lat., Pessimum genus inimicorum laudantes.] — Tacitus Copy Share Image
[Samuel] Johnson's conversation was by much too strong for a person accustomed to obsequiousness and flattery; it was mustard in a young… — Hester Lynch Piozzi Copy Share Image
Imitation is the highest form of flattery, but clones kind of get it wrong because we are promoting individuality and being proud… — Brian Molko Copy Share Image
“It was napoleon who once observed how easy it is to win men over through flattery simply by bequeathing a title to… — Texe Marrs 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
Sometimes, you can learn more from criticism than you can from flattery. — Doug McMillon Copy Share Image
At its best, flattery is truth well dressed, and it is best dressed with fine see-through fabrics. Honest flattery can caress a… — Willis Regier Copy Share Image
There is nothing which so poisons princes as flattery, nor anything whereby wicked men more easily obtain credit and favor with them. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Flattery, if judiciously administered, is always acceptable. — Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington Copy Share Image
A world without any lies at all is not a good world, because it's artless and because there are no white lies,… — Ricky Gervais Copy Share Image
Popular culture is a place where pity is called compassion, flattery is called love, propaganda is called knowledge, tension is called peace,… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
Now, in my opinion, a woman has no business with Power-Power admits no equal, and dismisses friendship for flattery. Besides, it keeps… — George Edward Moore Copy Share Image
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