Blind side Quote by Henry Fielding

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

— Edmund Burke

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 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

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

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

— Marjorie Bowen

Flattery makes fools of the best of us.

— Dorothy Salisbury Davis

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

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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

— William Feather

There is no other way of guarding oneself against flattery than by letting men understand that they will not offend you by speaking the…

— Niccolo Machiavelli

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

No flattery, boy! an honest man cannot live by it; it is a little, sneaking art, which knaves use to cajole and soften fools…

— Thomas Otway

Love of flattery, in most men, proceeds from the mean opinion they have of themselves; in women, from the contrary.

— Jonathan Swift