Ears Quote by Walter Scott

flattery would be worse than vain; there is no consolation in flattery.

— Charlotte Bronte

Flattery has a short battery life, but reminding people they are amazing and precious and wanted and works of art can truly change their…

— Donald Miller

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

Never permit yourself to indulge in cheap flattery, which often times means to merely satisfy the individuals vanity and sometimes to ingratiate the flatter…

— Harold B. Lee

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

— Deborah Smith

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

“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

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

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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 from the teeth out. Sincere appreciation is from the heart out.

— Dale Carnegie

Adroit observers will find that some who affect to dislike flattery, may yet be flattered indirectly, by a well seasoned abuse and ridicule of…

— Charles Caleb Colton

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

— Marjorie Bowen