Encouragement Quote by Kevin DeYoung

Flattery is praise insincerely given for an interested purpose.

— Henry Ward Beecher

Flattery is telling the other person precisely what he thinks about himself.

— Dale Carnegie

The aim of flattery is to soothe and encourage us by assuring us of the truth of an opinion we have already formed about…

— Edith Sitwell

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 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

“Affirmation, in contrast to flattery, requires seeing someone well enough to sense what to affirm, knowing someone well enough to be aware of what…

— Dale Carnegie

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

— Theophrastus

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

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

— Edmund Burke

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

— William Feather