Approval Quote by Agnetha Faltskog

I hate careless flattery, the kind that exhausts you in your efforts to believe it.

— Wilson Mizner

Sometimes we think we dislike flattery, but it is only the way it is done that we dislike.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Flattery has to overcome my mistrust, and it does.

— Mason Cooley

If you are someone who craves approval, you will tend to think you make a positive impression on other people.

— Kumar Anupam

Compliments and flattery oftenest excite my contempt by the pretension they imply; for who is he that assumes to flatter me? To compliment often…

— Henry David Thoreau

Your flattery is as full of contempt as your insults were.

— Mason Cooley

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

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

I do not listen to criticism or flattery, one weakens you and the other angers you.

— Diego Simeone

It is possible to be below flattery as well as above it.

— Charles R. Forbes

Flattery pleases very generally. In the first place, the flatterer may think what he says to be true; but, in the second place, whether…

— Samuel Johnson

There's two things that you don't listen to: flattery, which can't help you, and abuse, which can't hurt you. You have to look at…

— Jim Tressel

Sometimes, you can learn more from criticism than you can from flattery.

— Doug McMillon