Companionship Quote by Theophrastus

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

— Marjorie Bowen

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

— Edmund Burke

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

— Marjorie Bowen

Flattery is praise insincerely given for an interested purpose.

— Henry Ward Beecher

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

— William Feather

“Flattery, then, is like the other strategies discussed above in that it should be ineffective; unlike the others, however, it usually works. As Milan…

— Thomas Gilovich

Excellent flatterers welcome attentive audiences; mighty potentates enjoy public praise. In the most pleasing situation, a flatterer would genuinely admire the flatteree, please that…

— Willis Regier

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