Being true Quote by Samuel Johnson

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 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

“Behind the flattery, the edge of mockery was plain to anyone who must, as a matter of survival, learn to detect it. page no. 15”

— Shani Mootoo

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

— Dale Carnegie

“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

To be flattered is grateful, even when we know that our praises are not believed by those who pronounce them; for they prove, at…

— Samuel Johnson

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

— Charles Caleb Colton

Flattery is a lie covered in a bed of flowery words.

— Deborah Smith

“We mistakenly equate flattery to friendship and criticism to opposition; one should evaluate truth first and then judge, for flattery and criticism are primarily…

— RJ Intindola - - 1975

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 saying something nice in order to help yourself. Encouragement is saying something true in order help someone else.

— Kevin DeYoung

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

— Edmund Burke