Flattery Quote by William Shakespeare

Flattery is like friendship in show, but not in fruit.

— Socrates

Flattery looks like friendship, just like a wolf looks like a dog. Food for thought is no substitute for the real thing.

— Walt Kelly

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

— Marjorie Bowen

“There is flattery in friendship - William Shakespeare”

— William Shakespeare

Though flattery blossoms like friendship, yet there is a vast difference in the fruit.

— Socrates

Flattery must be pretty thick before anybody objects to it…

— William Feather

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 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

“How closely flattery resembles friendship! It not only apes friendship, but outdoes it, passing it in the race; with wide-open and indulgent ears it…

— Seneca

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

— Marjorie Bowen

One may define flattery as a base companionship which is most advantageous to the flatterer.

— Theophrastus

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