When one looks truly at the good side of everyone, others come to love him very naturally, and he does not need… — Abraham Isaac Kook Copy Share Image
We can often do more for other men by trying to correct our own faults than by trying to correct theirs. — Francois Fenelon 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
We swallow with one gulp the lie that flatters us, and drink drop by drop the truth which is bitter to us. — Denis Diderot Copy Share Image
Never was flattery lost on a poet's ear; a simple race, they waste their toil for the vain tribute of a smile. — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
A little flattery makes people feel good about themselves. When you notice someone looking great, give them a compliment. — Ken Blanchard Copy Share Image
Telling a girl she's hot is flattering but telling a girl she's beautiful means so much more ... — Ana Chable Copy Share Image
Because all men are apt to flatter themselves, to entertain the addition of other men's praises is most perilous. — Walter Raleigh Copy Share Image
If your enemies see that you grow courageous, and that you will neither be seduced by flatteries nor disheartened by the pains… — Henry Suso Copy Share Image
“Apprenez que tout flatteur Vit aux dépens de celui qui l'écoute : Cette leçon vaut bien un fromage, sans doute. Flatterers thrive… — Jean de La Fontaine Copy Share Image
Imitation is flattery. There was once a survey of who was the most imitated celebrity in Latin American countries, especially in Brazil… — Walter Mercado Copy Share Image
The heights of popularity and patriotism are still the beaten road to power and tyranny; flattery to treachery; standing armies to arbitrary… — David Hume Copy Share Image
There is no detraction worse than to overpraise a man, for if his worth proves short of what report doth speak of… — Owen Feltham Copy Share Image
We must define flattery and praise; they are distinct. Trajan was encouraged to virtue by the panegyric Pliny; Tiberius became obstinate in… — Louis XVI of France Copy Share Image
Most people are not really conceited, but feel a certain amount of inferiority and tend to get a little discouraged with themselves,… — David Berg Copy Share Image
Of all sorts of flattery, that which comes from a solemn character and stands before a sermon is the worst-complexioned. Such commendation… — Jeremy Collier 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
“There’s nothing in the world more difficult than candor, and nothing easier than flattery.” — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
I can spot empty flattery and know exactly where I stand. In the end it's really only my own approval or disapproval… — Agnetha Faltskog Copy Share Image
“Unfortunately, here as elsewhere on this touching planet, imitation is the watchword and prestige the highest ambition.” — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
They say that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery... Looks like you suck at that too… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The best form of flattery is to be admired, imitated or respected. I've always felt proud our fans look up to us… — Cheryl James Copy Share Image
The reason that adulation is not displeasing is that, though untrue, it shows one to be of consequence enough, in one way… — Lord Byron 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
Although I am small, ugly and dirty, I am highly ambitious, and at the slightest flattery, I immediately start to strut like… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
I am not one of those who left the land to the mercy of its enemies. Their flattery leaves me cold, my… — Anna Akhmatova Copy Share Image
“Evidently you think I'm a fool who will easily succumb to flattery, or else your standards are quite low.” — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
In the best, the friendliest and simplest relations flattery or praise is necessary, just as grease is necessary to keep wheels turning. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
He who says he hates every kind of flattery, and says it in earnest, certainly does not yet know every kind of… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
I look at my work and make up my mind about it. After that, neither flattery nor criticism matters to me. — Georgia O'Keeffe 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
The art of flatterers is to take advantage of the foibles of the great, to foster their errors, and never to give… — Moliere Copy Share Image
Copying is the greatest form of flattery, I guess. I am actually a little surprised that Vincent Lo didn't try and make… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
Cooking is a form of flattery…a mischievous, deceitful, mean and ignoble activity, which cheats us by shapes and colors, by smoothing and… — Plato Copy Share Image
“and even if she did find them ugly, she would never say so, because flattery had long since become second nature to… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
They say one of the greatest forms of flattery is for your son to follow in your footsteps. And so I enjoy… — Dennis Franchione Copy Share Image
“To flatter a young man, tell him that you thought that he was older than he is. To flatter an old woman,… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana 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
Baloney is flattery laid on so thick it cannot be true, and blarney is flattery so thin we love it. — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
“Flattery will get you nowhere. (In response to Wally George calling his band vile and evil.)” — Nikolas Schreck Copy Share Image
