Flattery Quotes

317 Flattery quotes by 206 unique authors

A sincere compliment is always grateful to a lady, so long as you don't try to knock her down with it. — Mark Twain
There is no other way to guard yourself against flattery than by making men understand that telling you the truth will not offend you. — Niccolo Machiavelli
I believe that love--not imitation--is the sincerest form of flattery. Your imitator thinks that you can be duplicated; your lover knows you can't. — Marilyn vos Savant
I have already settled it for myself so flattery and criticism go down the same drain and I am quite free. — Georgia O'Keeffe
In the best, the friendliest and simplest relations flattery or praise is necessary, just as grease is necessary to keep wheels turning. — Leo Tolstoy
Love of another is merely empty flattery and self-deception for one who cannot accept himself without pretense. — L.E. Modesitt Jr.
Of course you like him; everyone enjoys flattery. — Christopher Paolini
Near this spot are deposited the remains of one who possessed beauty without vanity, strength without insolence, courage without ferocity, and all the virtues of… — Lord Byron
Flattery is telling the other person precisely what he thinks about himself. — Dale Carnegie
The world's flattery and hypocrisy is a sweet morsel: eat less of it, for it is full of fire. Its fire is hidden while its… — Unknown Author
There is nothing in the world more difficult than candor, and nothing easier than flattery. If there is a hundredth of a fraction of a… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
In my experience, there are two things that no one will admit to: having no sense of humor and being susceptible to flattery. — Margaret George
The girl was grateful to the young man for every bit of flattery; she wanted to linger for a moment in its warmth and so… — Milan Kundera
Flattery is useful when dealing with youngsters. — Isaac Asimov
Imitation is not just the sincerest form of flattery - it's the sincerest form of learning. — George Bernard Shaw
And falling's just another way to fly. — Emilie Autumn
The Marquis believed himself to be hardened against flattery. He thought that he had experienced every variety, but he discovered that he was mistaken: the… — Georgette Heyer
Flattery will get you everywhere," Sam says, "Except, apparently, off a roof. — Holly Black
Katherine Kenton remains among the generation of women who feel that the most sincere form of flattery is the male erection. — Chuck Palahniuk
Every man kills the things that he loves. Some with a look, some with flattery, the coward with a kiss. — Eric Jerome Dickey
Heart-stopping envy is the sincerest form of flattery. — Anna Godbersen
Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites…in proportion as they are more… — Edmund Burke
I never paid you a compliment, Rachel, in my life. Successful love may sometimes use the language of flattery, I admit. But hopeless love, dearest,… — Wilkie Collins
But even this piece of flattery couldn't distract me from the fact that I was in the center of the Fae realm, blind, stark naked,… — Patrick Rothfuss
To experience commitment as the loss of options, a type of death, the death of childhood's limitless possibility, of the flattery of choice without duress-this… — David Foster Wallace

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