Flattery Quotes

Approve not of him who commends all you say.

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

Of course you like him; everyone enjoys flattery.

Katherine Kenton remains among the generation of women who feel that the most sincere form of flattery is the male erection.

No matter what other nations may say about the United States, immigration is still the sincerest form of flattery.

Complimenting someone in an exaggerated way is known as flattery, and flattery will generally get you anything you want.

In Hollywood, imitation is the most profitable form of flattery. That is the only plausible explanation.

When the world frowns, we can face it; but let it smile, and we are undone.

Flattery is a base coin which is current only through our vanity.

Flattery is false money, which would not be current were it not for our vanity.

If we never flattered ourselves we should have but scant pleasure.

One can also be undignified and flattering toward a virtue.

Inexperienced girls flatter themselves with the notion that it is in their power to make a man happy.

He who says he hates all kinds of flattery, and says so in earnest, has undoubtedly not as yet become acquainted with all kinds of it, whether in substance or in form.

Feel you the barren flattery of a rhyme? Can poets soothe you, when you pine for bread, By winding myrtle round your ruin'd shed?

[Samuel] Johnson's conversation was by much too strong for a person accustomed to obsequiousness and flattery; it was mustard in a young child's mouth!

Flattery will get you everywhere," Sam says, "Except, apparently, off a roof.

True love is mixed up with birdlike squabbles, in which the disputants wound each other to the quick; but a quarrel without animus is, on the contrary, apiece of flattery to the dupe's conceit.

LA runs on optimism, enthusiasm and flattery. I think you can go a little bit crazy... It's just too damn sunny in every dimension - weatherwise, socially and professionally.

If imitation is the greatest form of flattery, Punk, don't flatter me.

It is worth thought what kind of mind or condition or disposition is open to flattery; for poison would not be spread if the rats ate it not.

There's a certain balance between finding an opportunity to do what you really enjoy and getting caught up in the flattery of people wanting you to do things.

I am an actor and of course I respond very positively to flattery.

Flattery is saying something nice in order to help yourself. Encouragement is saying something true in order help someone else.

Alas! the praise given to the ear Ne'er was nor ne'er can be sincere.

Women have, in general, but ne object, which is their beauty; upon which, scarce any flattery is too gross for them to swallow.

In my experience, there are two things that no one will admit to: having no sense of humor and being susceptible to flattery.

A few good compliments produce a wealth of good and often financial benefits.

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

To say a compliment well is a high art and few possess it.

Flatter me, but delicately, please, for I am fastidious.

There is not one of us that would not be worse than kings, if so continually corrupted as they are with a sort of vermin called flatterers.

There is nothing which so poisons princes as flattery, nor anything whereby wicked men more easily obtain credit and favor with them.

I see this evident, that we willingly accord to piety only the services that flatter our passions.

The encomium of one incapable of flattery is indeed flattering.

I don't think imitation is the highest form of flattery, I think it's annoying.

Flattery is the infantry of negotiation.

We love flattery, even though we are not deceived by it, because it shows that we are of importance enough to be courted.

The world is grown so full of dissimulation and compliment, that men's words are hardly any signification of their thoughts.

A world without any lies at all is not a good world, because it's artless and because there are no white lies, no flattery.

No wonder, Sir, that he is vain; a man who is perpetually flattered in every mode that can be conceived. So many bellows have blown the fire, that one wonders he is not by this time become a cinder.

I think imitation is always the greatest form of flattery.

The most dangerous of all flattery is the inferiority of those about us.

Attention is a silent and perpetual flattery.

When we seek appreciation from others, we get not appreciation, but flattery.

Wounded pride can take a rich young man far who is surrounded by flatterers since birth.

Can honor's voice provoke the silent dust, or flattery soothe the dull, cold ear of death?

Am I the only person in the world who is shocked and amazed at the ongoing flattery of uebergeek Mark Zuckerberg?

The god-who-serves-ME requires flattery, not worship.

We never slam the door on flattery, we nudge it shut like a man rejecting his mistress: if she nudges back, we're delighted – and if she breaks it down, we rejoice.