Flattery Quotes

I hate careless flattery, the kind that exhausts you in your efforts to believe it.

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

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

Gallantry of mind consists in saying flattering things in an agreeable manner.

They say one of the greatest forms of flattery is for your son to follow in your footsteps. And so I enjoy that greatest form of flattery, without a doubt.

Of all wild beasts preserve me from a tyrant; and of all tame a flatterer.

Listening, not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery.

Imitation is flattery, and The Hills Have Eyes is a classic.

The world's flattery and hypocrisy is a sweet morsel: eat less of it, for it is full of fire. Its fire is hidden while its taste is manifest, but its smoke becomes visible in the end.

Vanity is truly the motive power that moves humanity, and it is flattery that greases the wheels.

I believe that love--not imitation--is the sincerest form of flattery. Your imitator thinks that you can be duplicated; your lover knows you can't.

He does me double wrong That wounds me with the flatteries of his tongue.

Because nothing says flattery like a gun to the head.

Now, in my opinion, a woman has no business with Power-Power admits no equal, and dismisses friendship for flattery. Besides, it keeps the men at a distance, and that is not always what we wish.

Flattery labors under the odious charge of servility.

None are more taken in by flattery than the proud, who wish to be the first and are not.

The heart of a woman is never so full of affection that there does not remain a little corner for flattery and love.

Do not offer a compliment and ask a favor at the same time. A compliment that is charged for is not valuable.

Flattery will get you everywhere.

A little flattery makes people feel good about themselves. When you notice someone looking great, give them a compliment.

A fool can no more see his own folly than he can see his ears.

Women are hard and proud and stubborn-hearted, Their heads being turned with praise and flattery; And that is why their lovers are afraid To tell them a plain story.

The habit of pleasing by flattery makes a language soft; the fear of offending by truth makes it circuitous and conventional.

Flattery is like a painted armor; only for show.

Flattery is a counterfeit money which, but for vanity, would have no circulation.

I can spot empty flattery and know exactly where I stand. In the end it's really only my own approval or disapproval that means anything.

In the best, the friendliest and simplest relations flattery or praise is necessary, just as grease is necessary to keep wheels turning.

O Beauty, find thyself in love, not in the flattery of thy mirror.

Direct, forceful, energetic. Loves power, eats up publicity and flattery... Can turn on charm at will and knows it.

'T is an old maxim in the schools, That flattery 's the food of fools; Yet now and then your men of wit Will condescend to take a bit.

A woman's flattery may inflate a man's head a little; but her criticism goes straight to his heart, and contracts it so that it can never again hold quite as much love for her.

Never permit yourself to indulge in cheap flattery, which often times means to merely satisfy the individuals vanity and sometimes to ingratiate the flatter into the good graces of the flattered.

You can stroke people with words.

Imitation is the highest form of flattery.

What drink'st thou oft, instead of homage sweet, But poisoned flattery?

Flattery of the verbal kind is gross. In short, applause is of too coarse a nature to be swallowed in the gross, though the extract or tincture be ever so agreeable.

A rich man's joke is always funny.

Slander, in the strict meaning of the term, comes under the head of lying; but it is a kind of lying which, like its antithesis flattery, ought to be set apart for special censure.

Between flattery and admiration there often flows a river of contempt.

Patron: One who countenances, supports or protects. Commonly a wretch who supports with insolence, and is repaid in flattery.

The same man cannot be both Friend and Flatterer.

Nothing is so great an example of bad manners as flattery. If you flatter all the company, you please none; If you flatter only one or two, you offend the rest.

Grant me prudently to avoid him that flatters me, and to endure patiently him that contradicts me.

We should keep silent about those in power; to speak well of them almost implies flattery; to speak ill of them while they are alive is dangerous, and when they are dead is cowardly.

When fortune flatters, she does it to betray.

Like pollen on a honeybee, flattery clings to the things you tell yourself.

What valor cannot win, flattery may.

Flatterers are the worst kind of enemies. [Lat., Pessimum genus inimicorum laudantes.]

When a cat flatters ... he is not insincere: you may safely take it for real kindness.

Dogs live with man as courtiers 'round a monarch, steeped in the flattery of his notice ... to push their favor in this world of pickings and caresses is, perhaps, the business of their lives.