Deceived Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

— Marjorie Bowen

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

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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 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 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 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 praise insincerely given for an interested purpose.

— Henry Ward Beecher

Flattery makes fools of the best of us.

— Dorothy Salisbury Davis

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

— William Feather

We sometimes imagine we hate flattery, but we only hate the way we are flattered.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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

— Marjorie Bowen

Flattery is often a traffic of mutual meanness, where although both parties intend deception, neither are deceived.

— Charles Caleb Colton