Flattery Quotes
317 quotes by 206 authors
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To say a compliment well is a high art and few possess it.
— Mark Twain
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Flattery is a juggler, and no kin unto sincerity.
— Thomas Browne
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The habit of pleasing by flattery makes a language soft; the fear of offending by truth makes it circuitous and conventional.
— Walter Savage Landor
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There is no flattery so adroit or effectual as that of implicit assent.
— William Hazlitt
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What really flatters a man is that you think him worth flattering.
— George Bernard Shaw
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Gallantry of mind consists in saying flattering things in an agreeable manner.
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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Flattery is often a traffic of mutual meanness, where although both parties intend deception, neither are deceived.
— Charles Caleb Colton
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Of all wild beasts preserve me from a tyrant; and of all tame a flatterer.
— Ben Jonson
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A man that does not love praise is not a full man.
— Henry Ward Beecher
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If men of eminence are exposed to censure on one hand, they are as much liable to flattery on the other. If they receive reproaches…
— Joseph Addison
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Inexperienced girls flatter themselves with the notion that it is in their power to make a man happy.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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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
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It is necessary to the success of flattery, that it be accommodated to particular circumstances or characters, and enter the heart on that side where…
— Samuel Johnson
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Praise a stranger with a few nice words and he becomes a stranger that calls you a friend.
— Simon Cowell
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Love of flattery, in most men, proceeds from the mean opinion they have of themselves; in women, from the contrary.
— Jonathan Swift
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Are you tired? You should be! You've been running through my mind all day.
— Gary Barlow
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Flattery pleases very generally. In the first place, the flatterer may think what he says to be true; but, in the second place, whether he…
— Samuel Johnson
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We must be careful how we flatter fools too little, or wise men too much, for the flatterer must act the very reverse of the…
— Charles Caleb Colton
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Praise to the undeserving is severe satire.
— Benjamin Franklin
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Both in thy private sessions, and the universal assizes, thou shalt be sure of the same Judge, the same jury, the same witnesses, the same…
— Thomas Adams
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