Cursed Quote by Maria Edgeworth

Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.

— Edmund Burke

Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver; and adulation is not of more service to the people than to kings.

— Edmund Burke

Flattery will get you nowhere

— Proverb

Flattery is counterfeit, and like counterfeit money, it will eventually get you into trouble if you pass it to someone else.

— Dale Carnegie

Flattery is praise insincerely given for an interested purpose.

— Henry Ward Beecher

Flattery is from the teeth out. Sincere appreciation is from the heart out.

— Dale Carnegie

Just praise is only a debt, but flattery is a present.

— Samuel Johnson

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

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 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 would be worse than vain; there is no consolation in flattery.

— Charlotte Bronte

No man of high and generous spirit is ever willing to indulge in flattery; the good may feel affection for others, but will not…

— Aristotle