Imitation is the sincerest of flattery.
Charles Caleb Colton
Flattery is all right so long as you don't inhale.
Adlai E. Stevenson
Flattery will get you nowhere
Proverb
For there is no faithfulness in their mouth; their inward part is very wickedness; their throat is an open sepulchre; they flatter with their tongue.
Bible
Flattery makes friends and truth makes enemies.
Spanish proverb
Flattery will get you everywhere.
Mae West
What really flatters a man is that you think him worth flattering.
George Bernard Shaw
Flattery was formerly a vice; it has now become the fashion.
Syrus
If we did not flatter ourselves the flattery from others would not harm us.
Proverb
Self-love is the greatest of all flatterers.
FranÃois de La Rochefoucauld
Every flatterer lives at the expense of him who listens to him.
Jean de La Fontaine
Nothing flatters a man as much as the happiness of his wife; he is always proud of himself as the source of it.
Samuel Johnson
Just praise is only a debt, but flattery is a present.
Samuel Johnson
Nature has hardly formed a woman ugly enough to be insensible to flattery upon her person.
Lord Chesterfield