Assuming Quote by Henry David Thoreau

Complimenting someone in an exaggerated way is known as flattery, and flattery will generally get you anything you want...

— Anonymous

It's always flattering when you get compliments, but it's more of a measure of who you are at the time than anything else.

— Rachel Riley

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

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

A little flattery makes people feel good about themselves. When you notice someone looking great, give them a compliment.

— Ken Blanchard

Flattery has to overcome my mistrust, and it does.

— Mason Cooley

Although a skillful flatterer is a most delightful companion if you have him all to yourself, his taste becomes very doubtful when he takes…

— Charles Dickens

When I compliment you, I compliment myself, because I am who I associate with.

— Anonymous

No compliment is ever sufficient and every insult, of course, is true.

— Jesse Eisenberg

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

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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

— Edmund Burke

An occasional compliment is necessary to keep up one's self-respect.

— Mark Twain