Flattery Quotes

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To say a compliment well is a high art and few possess it. — Mark Twain
Flattery is a juggler, and no kin unto sincerity. — Thomas Browne
The habit of pleasing by flattery makes a language soft; the fear of offending by truth makes it circuitous and conventional. — Walter Savage Landor
There is no flattery so adroit or effectual as that of implicit assent. — William Hazlitt
What really flatters a man is that you think him worth flattering. — George Bernard Shaw
Gallantry of mind consists in saying flattering things in an agreeable manner. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Flattery is often a traffic of mutual meanness, where although both parties intend deception, neither are deceived. — Charles Caleb Colton
Of all wild beasts preserve me from a tyrant; and of all tame a flatterer. — Ben Jonson
A man that does not love praise is not a full man. — Henry Ward Beecher
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
Inexperienced girls flatter themselves with the notion that it is in their power to make a man happy. — Friedrich Nietzsche
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
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
Praise a stranger with a few nice words and he becomes a stranger that calls you a friend. — Simon Cowell
Love of flattery, in most men, proceeds from the mean opinion they have of themselves; in women, from the contrary. — Jonathan Swift
Are you tired? You should be! You've been running through my mind all day. — Gary Barlow
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
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
Praise to the undeserving is severe satire. — Benjamin Franklin
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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