Faces Quote by Samuel Johnson

What really flatters a man is that you think him worth flattering.

— George Bernard Shaw

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

— Edmund Burke

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

Flattery is never so agreeable as to our blind side; commend a fool for his wit, or a knave for his honesty, and they…

— Henry Fielding

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

— Marjorie Bowen

He that loves to be flattered is worthy o' the flatterer.

— William Shakespeare

No flattery, boy! an honest man cannot live by it; it is a little, sneaking art, which knaves use to cajole and soften fools…

— Thomas Otway

Men sometimes think they hate flattery, but they hate only the manner of flattering.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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

If any man flatters me, I'll flatter him again; tho' he were my best Friend.

— Benjamin Franklin

Nothing is so great an example of bad manners as flattery. If you flatter all the company, you please none; If you flatter only…

— Jonathan Swift