Flattery Quotes

The world is a king, and like a king, desires flattery in return for favor; but true art is selfish and perverse — it will not submit to the mold of flattery.

People generally despise where they flatter, and cringe to those they would gladly overtop; so that truth and ceremony are two things.

Let flattery, the handmaid of the vices, be far removed .

Flattery and insults raise the same question: What do you want?

Were there no fools, there would be no flatterers.

Gossip is what you say about the objects of flattery when they aren't present.

Imitation is flattery

Just praise is only a debt, but flattery is a present.

Flattery in courtship is the highest insolence, for whilst it pretends to bestow on you more than you deserve, it is watching an opportunity to take from you what you really have.

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

Don't flatter the rich, or appear to willing before the great.

A flatterer is the shadow of a fool.

Copying or imitation is the highest form of flattery.

He stepped down, avoiding any long look at her as one avoids long looks at the sun, but seeing her as one sees the sun, without looking.

Men are like stone jugs - you may lug them where you like by the ears.

In lapidary inscriptions a man is not upon oath.

It's pleasant to hear these nice words while I'm still alive. I'd rather have the taffy than the epitaphy.

I know imitation is the highest form of flattery, but stealing one's identity is totally different.

People generally despise where they flatter.

Blame-all and Praise-all are two blockheads.

If any man flatters me, I'll flatter him again; tho' he were my best Friend.

Flattery, if judiciously administered, is always acceptable, however much we may despise the flatterer.

Some indeed there are who profess to despise all flattery, but even these are nevertheless to be flattered, by being told that they do despise it.

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

Copying is the greatest form of flattery, I guess. I am actually a little surprised that Vincent Lo didn't try and make a deal to be on The Apprentice,.

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

Flattery is a foolish suicide; she destroys herself with her own hands.

We sometimes imagine we hate flattery, but we only hate the way we are flattered.

The firmest purpose of a woman's heart to well-timed, artful flattery may yield.

I look at my work and make up my mind about it. After that, neither flattery nor criticism matters to me.

A man who does not love praise is not a full man.

The flatterer easily insinuates himself into the closet, while honest merit stands shivering in the hall or antechamber.

Confidence, as opposed, to modesty and distinguished from decent assurance, proceeds from self-opinion, and is occasioned by ignorance and flattery.

Where Young must torture his invention To flatter knaves, or lose his pension.

Love of another is merely empty flattery and self-deception for one who cannot accept himself without pretense.

I would give worlds, could I believe One-half that is profess'd me; Affection! could I think it Thee, When Flattery has caress'd me.

Truth and ceremony are two things.

Let flattery, the handmaid of the vices, be far removed (from friendship). [Lat., Assentatio, vitiorum adjutrix, procul amoveatur.]

We despise no source that can pay us a pleasing attention.

The happy phrasing of a compliment is one of the rarest of human gifts, and the happy delivery of it another.

Flattery leads to vulgarity; the flatterer is despised.

There is no food more satiating than milk and honey; and just as such foods produce disgust for the palate, so perfumed and gallant words make our ears belch.

It is no flattery to give a friend a due character; for commendation is as much the duty of a friend as reprehension.

Flattery was formerly a vice; it has now become the fashion.

Flattery, the dangerous nurse of vice.

He who praises everybody, praises nobody.

It is scarcely credible to what degree discernment may be dazzled by the mist of pride, and wisdom infatuated by the intoxication of flattery.

Madam, before you flatter a man so grossly to his face, you should consider whether or not your flattery is worth his having.

It is necessary to the success of flattery, that it be accommodated to particular circumstances or characters, and enter the heart on that side where the passions are ready to receive it.

A man who flatters a woman hopes either to find her a fool or to make her one.