Enjoyment Quote by Jane Austen

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

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

One may define flattery as a base companionship which is most advantageous to the flatterer.

— Theophrastus

“Flattery is so necessary to all of us that we flatter one another to be flattered in return”

— Marjorie Bowen

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

— Marjorie Bowen

One of the most flattering things is when other people are seeing what you're doing and then replicating that kind of thing.

— Willam Belli

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 praise insincerely given for an interested purpose.

— Henry Ward Beecher

There can hardly, I believe, be imagined a more desirable pleasure than that of praise unmixed with any possibility of flattery.

— Richard Steele

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

Excellent flatterers welcome attentive audiences; mighty potentates enjoy public praise. In the most pleasing situation, a flatterer would genuinely admire the flatteree, please that…

— Willis Regier

Flattery leads to vulgarity; the flatterer is despised.

— Nachman of Breslov

If we never flattered ourselves we should have but scant pleasure.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld