Bad man Quote by Jonathan Swift

Nothing is so great an instance of ill-manners as flattery.

— Jonathan Swift

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

Never permit yourself to indulge in cheap flattery, which often times means to merely satisfy the individuals vanity and sometimes to ingratiate the flatter…

— Harold B. Lee

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

I like rudeness a great deal better than flattery.

— Charlotte Bronte

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

— Marjorie Bowen

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

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

— Bill Vaughan

Flattery is essential to business. No flattery no market.

— Toothangel15

Sometimes we think we dislike flattery, but it is only the way it is done that we dislike.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld