Air Quote by Seneca the Younger

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 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 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 essential to business. No flattery no market.

— Toothangel15

The best form of flattery is to master the art of listening.

— Vikrant Parsai

If we did not flatter ourselves, the flattery of others could never harm us.

— 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 has to overcome my mistrust, and it does.

— Mason Cooley

Flattery works like a drug.

— Willis Regier

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

— Edmund Burke

Flattery leads to vulgarity; the flatterer is despised.

— Nachman of Breslov

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