Awake Quote by Friedrich Nietzsche

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

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

— Bill Vaughan

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

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The most dangerous of all flattery is the inferiority of those about us.

— Sophie Swetchine

Flattery leads to vulgarity; the flatterer is despised.

— Nachman of Breslov

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

We never slam the door on flattery, we nudge it shut like a man rejecting his mistress: if she nudges back, we're delighted –…

— Anonymous

Flattery is useful when dealing with youngsters.

— Isaac Asimov

The habitude of pleasing by flattery makes a language soft; the fear of offending by truth makes it circuitous and conventional

— Walter Savage Landor

The habit of pleasing by flattery makes a language soft; the fear of offending by truth makes it circuitous and conventional.

— Walter Savage Landor