Dislike Quote by Francois de La Rochefoucauld

We sometimes imagine we hate flattery, but we only hate the way we are flattered.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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

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 has to overcome my mistrust, and it does.

— Mason Cooley

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

— Jonathan Swift

Flattery is no more than what raises in a man's mind an idea of a preference which he has not.

— Edmund Burke

Men sometimes think they hate flattery, but they hate only the manner of flattering.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Some indeed there are who profess to despise all flattery, but even these are nevertheless to be flattered, by being told that they do…

— Charles Caleb Colton

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 a challenge. The proper turning away from it, undercutting, diminishing it without offense or vehemence, is a social grace sweeter even than…

— Elizabeth Hardwick

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

— Marjorie Bowen