Flattery Quotes

317 Flattery quotes by 206 unique authors

Flattery is like chewing gum. Enjoy it but don't swallow it. — Hank Ketcham
Knavery and flattery are blood relations. — Abraham Lincoln
The love of one's own sex is precious, for it is neither provoked by vanity nor retained by flattery; it is genuine and sincere. — Maria Mitchell
I hate careless flattery, the kind that exhausts you in your efforts to believe it. — Wilson Mizner
Imitation is the highest form of flattery, but clones kind of get it wrong because we are promoting individuality and being proud of being yourself. — Brian Molko
A little flattery will support a man through great fatigue. — James Monroe
Naturally, there are times when every woman likes to be flattered... to feel she is the most important thing in someone's world. Only a man… — Marilyn Monroe
Sheer flattery got me into the theater. Flattery always works with me, particularly the flattery of women. — Carroll O'Connor
Gossip is what you say about the objects of flattery when they aren't present. — P.J. O'Rourke
To be a man's own fool is bad enough, but the vain man is everybody's. — William Penn
Flatter not thyself in thy faith in God if thou hast not charity for thy neighbor. — Francis Quarles
Flattery is a kind of bad money, to which our vanity gives us currency. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
If we did not flatter ourselves, the flattery of others could never harm us. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
A woman's flattery may inflate a man's head a little; but her criticism goes straight to his heart, and contracts it so that it can… — Helen Rowland
I once had a rose named after me and I was very flattered. But I was not pleased to read the description in the catalogue:… — Eleanor Roosevelt
I will praise any man that will praise me. — William Shakespeare
Baloney is flattery laid on so thick it cannot be true, and blarney is flattery so thin we love it. — Fulton J. Sheen
Sometimes, idealistic people are put off the whole business of networking as something tainted by flattery and the pursuit of selfish advantage. But virtue in… — Sonia Sotomayor
None are more taken in by flattery than the proud, who wish to be the first and are not. — Baruch Spinoza
Flattery is all right so long as you don't inhale. — Adlai E. Stevenson
Republics are created by the virtue, public spirit, and intelligence of the citizens. They fall, when the wise are banished from the public councils, because… — Joseph Story
Nothing is so great an example of bad manners as flattery. If you flatter all the company, you please none; If you flatter only one… — Jonathan Swift
Yes, Boss?' Dorcas, the last twenty or thirty years I've been a worthless, no-good parasite.' She yawned again. 'Everybody knows that.' Nevermind the flattery. There… — Robert A. Heinlein
Nothing in this world is harder than speaking the truth, nothing easier than flattery. — Fyodor Dostoevsky
We rightly scorn those who have no made use of their defects, who have not exploited their deficiencies, and have not been enriched by their… — Emile M. Cioran

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