Flattered Quote by Harold B. Lee

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

— Elizabeth Hardwick

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

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

— Marjorie Bowen

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 has to overcome my mistrust, and it does.

— Mason Cooley

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

Nothing is so great an example of bad manners as flattery. If you flatter all the company, you please none; If you flatter only…

— Jonathan Swift

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

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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

— William Feather

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

— Dale Carnegie