Counterfeit Quote by Dale Carnegie

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

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 must be pretty thick before anybody objects to it....

— William Feather

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 is like a chewing gum. Chew it but never swallow it.

— Ritu Ghatourey

Flattery is a kind of bad money, to which our vanity gives us currency.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Flattery is a base coin which is current only through our vanity.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Flattery is like wine, which exhilarates a man for a moment, but usually ends by going to his head and making him act foolishly.

— Helen Rowland

Flattery has to overcome my mistrust, and it does.

— Mason Cooley

The most sincere form of flattery is money.

— Jim Cantrell

Flattery, though a base coin, is the necessary pocket money at court; where, by custom and consent, it has obtained such a currency that…

— Bill Vaughan

Flattery is often a traffic of mutual meanness, where although both parties intend deception, neither are deceived.

— Charles Caleb Colton