Flattery Quotes

He that rewards flattery, begs it

— Proverb

Flattery is the infantry of negotiation.

— Anonymous

Truth and ceremony are two things.

— Marcus Aurelius

No man flatters the woman he truly loves.

— Henry Theodore Tuckerman

Flattery works like a drug.

— Willis Regier

Flattery is praise without foundation.

— Eliza Leslie

Cats like men are flatterers.

— Walter Savage Landor

Invitation is the sincerest flattery.

— Carolyn Wells

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

— Letitia Elizabeth Landon

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

— William Shakespeare

Flattery is like a chewing gum. Chew it but never swallow it.

— Ritu Ghatourey

Where Young must torture his invention To flatter knaves, or lose his pension.

— Jonathan Swift

Not kings alone--the people, too, have their flatterers.

— Victor de Riqueti, marquis de Mirabeau

Gossip is what you say about the objects of flattery when they aren't present.

— P. J. O'Rourke

A plateau is the highest form of flattery.

— Green Monk

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

— François De La Rochefoucauld

“Behind the flattery, the edge of mockery was plain to anyone who must, as a matter of survival, learn to detect it.…

— Shani Mootoo

It is scarcely credible to what degree discernment may be dazzled by the mist of pride, and wisdom infatuated by the intoxication…

— Samuel Johnson

Katherine Kenton remains among the generation of women who feel that the most sincere form of flattery is the male erection.

— Chuck Palahniuk

“Flattery is so necessary to all of us that we flatter one another to be flattered in return”

— Marjorie Bowen

Women have, in general, but ne object, which is their beauty; upon which, scarce any flattery is too gross for them to…

— Lord Chesterfield

“If imitation is the highest form of flattery, than Christians have become pop culture’s most devoted admirers.”

— Skye Jethani

Confidence, as opposed, to modesty and distinguished from decent assurance, proceeds from self-opinion, and is occasioned by ignorance and flattery.

— Jeremy Collier

None are more taken in by flattery than the proud, who wish to be the first and are not.

— Baruch Spinoza

When will the public cease to insult the teacher's calling with empty flattery? When will men who would never for a moment…

— Anonymous

“Flattery, then, is like the other strategies discussed above in that it should be ineffective; unlike the others, however, it usually works.…

— Thomas Gilovich

The mischief of flattery is, not that it persuades any man that he is what he is not, but that it suppresses…

— Samuel Johnson

Astronomy was born of superstition; eloquence of ambition, hatred, falsehood, and flattery; geometry of avarice; physics of an idle curiosity; and even…

— Jean-Baptiste Rousseau

That little hypocrites and half-crazed people dare to imagine that on their account the laws of nature are constantly broken; such an…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

We have lost the old love of work, of work which kept itself company, which was fair weather and music in the…

— John Lancaster Spalding

I never pretended to be rock star. I would make a lousy rock star. I don't have the right voice for it.…

— Joan Baez

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

Human life is thus only a perpetual illusion; men deceive and flatter each other. No one speaks of us in our presence…

— Blaise Pascal

For awareness you need not go to the Himalayas; you need not go anywhere. Your life gives you enough opportunities to be…

— Rajneesh

“Never fear that: if he be so resolved, I can o'ersway him; for he loves to hear That unicorns may be betray'd…

— William Shakespeare

“After this manner conceive that a flatterer differs from a friend: for it often happens to both that they engage in the…

— Maximus Tyrius

As kings are begotten and born like other men, it is to be presumed that they are of the human species; and…

— Lord Chesterfield

Ho, Ho, Sir Surgeon. You are too delicate to tell the man that he is ill. You hope to heal the sick…

— Charles Spurgeon

One of the highest of human duties is the duty of encouragement...It is easy to laugh at men's ideals; it is easy…

— William Barclay

The best way to sell yourself to others is first to sell the others to yourself. Check yourself against this list of…

— Harold Geneen