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The aim of flattery is to soothe and encourage us by assuring us of the truth of an opinion we have already formed about…

— Edith Sitwell

The best form of flattery is to master the art of listening.

— Vikrant Parsai

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

Flattery is praise insincerely given for an interested purpose.

— Henry Ward Beecher

The most sincere form of flattery is money.

— Jim Cantrell

We love flattery, even though we are not deceived by it, because it shows that we are of importance enough to be courted.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

— Jonathan Swift

Adroit observers will find that some who affect to dislike flattery, may yet be flattered indirectly, by a well seasoned abuse and ridicule of…

— Charles Caleb Colton

The most skillful flattery is to let a person talk on, and be a listener.

— Joseph Addison

Flattery must be pretty thick before anybody objects to it…

— William Feather

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

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

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld