Abuse Quote by Charles Caleb Colton

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

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

We sometimes imagine we hate flattery, but we only hate the way we are flattered.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Some indeed there are who profess to despise all flattery, but even these are nevertheless to be flattered, by being told that they do…

— Charles Caleb Colton

Flattery leads to vulgarity; the flatterer is despised.

— Nachman of Breslov

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

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

Never permit yourself to indulge in cheap flattery, which often times means to merely satisfy the individuals vanity and sometimes to ingratiate the flatter…

— Harold B. Lee

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

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

Flattery has to overcome my mistrust, and it does.

— Mason Cooley

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

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Flattery is the worst and falsest way of showing our esteem.

— Jonathan Swift