Flattery Quotes · Page 11

Of all wild beasts preserve me from a tyrant; and of all tame a flatterer.

— Ben Jonson

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

— Josh Billings

The same man cannot be both Friend and Flatterer.

— Benjamin Franklin

Flee flattery, false praise and fair weather friends

— Fraser Young

Attention is a silent and perpetual flattery.

— Sophie Swetchine

What makes everyone sick except those who swallow it? Flattery.

— Anonymous

“To pay flattery their country will bleed.”

— Taliesin

“Imitation is the highest from of flattery. Until it isn't.”

— Em Bailey

The world is grown so full of dissimulation and compliment, that men's words are hardly any signification of their thoughts.

— Richard Steele

Flattery is counterfeit, and like counterfeit money, it will eventually get you into trouble if you pass it to someone else.

— Dale Carnegie

Nature has hardly formed a woman ugly enough to be insensible to flattery upon her person.

— Lord Chesterfield

To thee, fair Freedom! I retire From flattery, cards, and dice, and din: Nor art thou found in mansions higher Than the…

— William Shenstone

Wounded pride can take a rich young man far who is surrounded by flatterers since birth.

— Stendhal

A sincere compliment is always grateful to a lady, so long as you don't try to knock her down with it.

— Mark Twain

Do not offer a compliment and ask a favor at the same time. A compliment that is charged for is not valuable.

— Mark Twain

“Flatterers should be mistrusted, especially when they praise the dead. To seek a place in society is self-serving, but to seek one…

— Bauvard

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

Imitation is the surest form of flattery and failure. I am not interested with your talk about my ideas. I am more…

— Miyamoto Musashi

Flattery is an ensnaring quality, and leaves a very dangerous impression. It swells a man's imagination, entertains his vanity, and drives him…

— Jeremy Collier

“I become quite melancholy and deeply grieved to see men behave to each other as they do. Everywhere I find nothing but…

— Molière

No wonder, Sir, that he is vain; a man who is perpetually flattered in every mode that can be conceived. So many…

— Samuel Johnson

Nay, do not think I flatter. For what advancement may I hope from thee, That no revenue hast but thy good spirits…

— William Shakespeare

Imitation is the best form of flattery; people generally understand that my comedy is not intended to hurt anybody. Occasionally, an actor…

— Vivek

If men of eminence are exposed to censure on one hand, they are as much liable to flattery on the other. If…

— Joseph Addison

“Flattery is nothing but attention without intention.”

— Mary Lindsey

Some folks pay a compliment like they went down in their pocket for it.

— Kin Hubbard

Imitation is the sincerest form of insult.

— Elbert Hubbard

Imitation is the highest form of flattery.

— Charles Caleb Colton

“Flattery won't get you out of owing me ten bucks.”

— Dani Harper

Let those flatter who fear; it is not an American art .

— Thomas Jefferson

Mountains of gold would not seduce some men, yet flattery would break them down.

— Henry Ward Beecher

There is no flattery so adroit or effectual as that of implicit assent.

— William Hazlitt

Flattery won't hurt you if you don't swallow it.

— Kin Hubbard

People generally despise where they flatter

— Aristotle

“Not bad," he decided. "I'm overwhelmed by your flattery.”

— Nora Roberts

Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.

— Charles Caleb Colton

We sometimes imagine we hate flattery, but we only hate the way we are flattered.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Immigration is the sincerest form of flattery.

— Jack Paar

To ask advice is in nine cases out of ten to tout for flattery.

— John Churton Collins

Gallantry of mind consists in saying flattering things in an agreeable manner.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld