Blessings Of God Quote by Deborah Smith Pegues

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 praise insincerely given for an interested purpose.

— Henry Ward Beecher

It is true that I receive a lot of praise and that is flattering. But I try not to let it affect me.

— N'Golo Kante

flattery would be worse than vain; there is no consolation in flattery.

— Charlotte Bronte

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

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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 must be pretty thick before anybody objects to it…

— William Feather

The mischief of flattery is, not that it persuades any man that he is what he is not, but that it suppresses the influence…

— Samuel Johnson

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

The encomium of one incapable of flattery is indeed flattering.

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

Flattery is praise without foundation.

— Eliza Leslie

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

— Ritu Ghatourey