Acceptable Quote by Bill Vaughan

Flattery, if judiciously administered, is always acceptable.

— Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington

Flattery leads to vulgarity; the flatterer is despised.

— Nachman of Breslov

Flattery must be pretty thick before anybody objects to it....

— William Feather

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

— Jeremy Collier

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

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

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Nothing is so great an example of bad manners as flattery. If you flatter all the company, you please none; If you flatter only…

— Jonathan Swift

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

— Thomas Gilovich

Flattery is a challenge. The proper turning away from it, undercutting, diminishing it without offense or vehemence, is a social grace sweeter even than…

— Elizabeth Hardwick

If we did not flatter ourselves, the flattery of others could never harm us.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

We love flattery, even though we are not deceived by it, because it shows that we are of importance enough to be courted.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The most that can be said of flattery is that it is sometimes a cheap psychological trick with which charlatans and dishonest people lull…

— Napoleon Hill