Challenges Quote by Elizabeth Hardwick

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

“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 has to overcome my mistrust, and it does.

— Mason Cooley

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

— William Feather

Flattery is so necessary to us that we flatter one another just to be flattered in return.

— Marjorie Bowen

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

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

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

— Dale Carnegie

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

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld