Top 25 Flattery Quotes of 217 - Page 3

No man flatters the woman he truly loves.

No man flatters the woman he truly loves.

Henry Theodore Tuckerman

Men, Flattery

You can stroke people with words.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Writing, People, Flattery

F. Scott Fitzgerald (2009). “The Crack-Up”, p.207, New Directions Publishing

Imitation is the highest form of flattery.

Charles Caleb Colton

Inspirational, Flattery, Imitation

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

Willis Regier

Flattery, Pollen

Willis Goth Regier (2007). “In Praise of Flattery”, p.19, U of Nebraska Press

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.

Washington Gladden

Lying, Special, Flattery

Washington Gladden (1883). “Things New and Old in Discourses of Christian Truth and Life”

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

Thomas a Kempis

Criticism, Flattery, Praise

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

Tacitus

Enemy, Flattery, Kind

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

Samuel Johnson

Support, Flattery, Patronage

"A Dictionary of the English Language". Book by Samuel Johnson, 1755.

He that is much flattered soon learns to flatter himself.

Samuel Johnson

Flattery, Flattered

Samuel Johnson, Hester Lynch Piozzi, James Boswell (1787). “The Beauties of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Consisting of Maxims and Observations, Moral, Critical, and Miscellaneous, to which are Now Added, Biographical Anecdotes of the Doctor, Selected from the Late Productions of Mrs. Piozzi, Mr. Boswell, ...”, p.101

What valor cannot win, flattery may.

Publilius Syrus

Winning, May, Flattery

When fortune flatters, she does it to betray.

Publilius Syrus

Betrayal, Doe, Flattery

"Sentences". Collection by Publilius Syrus. Maxim 277,

Flattery won't hurt you if you don't swallow it.

Kin Hubbard

Hurt, Flattery, Ifs

Kin Hubbard, David S. Hawes (1995). “The Best of Kin Hubbard: Abe Martin's Sayings and Wisecracks, Abe's Neighbors, His Almanack, Comic Drawings”, p.28, Indiana University Press

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.

Jonathan Swift

Two, Example, Flattery

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.

Jean de la Bruyere

Power, Alive, Flattery

"Of Great Nobles". "Characters", Book by Jean De La Bruyère, www.ourcivilisation.com. 1688.

The same man cannot be both Friend and Flatterer.

Benjamin Franklin

Men, Flattery, Poor Richard

Benjamin Franklin (2013). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.37, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

I will praise any man that will praise me.

William Shakespeare

Men, Flattery, Praise

'Antony and Cleopatra' (1606-7) act 2, sc. 6, l. [88]

Cats like men are flatterers.

Walter Savage Landor

Cat, Men, Flattery

Walter Savage Landor (1853). “The Works of Walter Savage Landor”, p.207

People flatter us because they can depend upon our credulity.

Tacitus

People, Flattery, Depends

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

Socrates

Fruit, Flattery, Shows

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.

Sarah Fielding

Opportunity, Flattery, Insolence

Sarah Fielding, Jane Collier (1754). “The Cry: A New Dramatic Fable”, p.45