Adulation Quote by Edmund Burke

Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.

— Edmund Burke

Now flattery can never do good; twice cursed in the giving and the receiving, it ought to be.

— Maria Edgeworth

Flattery, if judiciously administered, is always acceptable, however much we may despise the flatterer.

— Bill Vaughan

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

They do not abuse the king that flatter him. For flattery is the bellows blows up sin; The thing the which is flattered, but…

— William Shakespeare

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

— William Feather

Flattery, if judiciously administered, is always acceptable.

— Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington

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, then, is like the other strategies discussed above in that it should be ineffective; unlike the others, however, it usually works. As Milan…

— Thomas Gilovich

Flattery is praise insincerely given for an interested purpose.

— Henry Ward Beecher

Flattery leads to vulgarity; the flatterer is despised.

— Nachman of Breslov

Flattery is counterfeit, and like counterfeit money, it will eventually get you into trouble if you pass it to someone else.

— Dale Carnegie