Flattery Quotes

Flattery is all right so long as you don't inhale.

Flattery is the infantry of negotiation.
Lord Chandos

Imitation is the sincerest of flattery.

What really flatters a man is that you think him worth flattering.

Flattery is telling the other person precisely what he thinks about himself

Flattery is like friendship in show, but not in fruit

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.
Agnetha Faltskog

Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt of, not swallowed

Flattery is the worst and falsest way of showing our esteem

The aim of flattery is to soothe and encourage us by assuring us of the truth of an opinion we have already formed about ourselves.
Dame Edith Sitwell

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

Everyone likes flattery, and when you come to Royalty, you should lay it on with a thick trowel.

Flattery is never so agreeable as to our blind side; commend a fool for his wit, or a knave for his honesty, and they will receive you into their bosoms

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

Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.

Flattery makes friends and truth makes enemies.

He that flatters you more than you desire either has deceived you or wishes to deceive.

If we did not flatter ourselves the flattery from others would not harm us.

Self-love is the greatest of all flatterers.

Every flatterer lives at the expense of him who listens to him.

Nothing flatters a man as much as the happiness of his wife; he is always proud of himself as the source of it.

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

Nature has hardly formed a woman ugly enough to be insensible to flattery upon her person.







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