Flattery Quotes - Page 4

It is easy to flatter; it is harder to praise.

Flattery is praise insincerely given for an interested purpose.

I like rudeness a great deal better than flattery.

Flattery'll get you anywhere.

Immitation is the sincerest form of flattery.

Imitation is the sincerest of flattery.

Every woman is infallibly to be gained by every sort of flattery, and every man by one sort or other.

O that men's ears should be To counsel deaf but not to flattery!

Copying or imitation is the highest form of flattery.

A flatterer is the shadow of a fool.

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

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

Imitation is flattery

Imitation isn't the sincerest form of flattery - it's plagiarism.

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

For praise too dearly lov'd, or warmly sought, Enfeebles all internal strength of thought; And the weak soul within itself unblest, Leans for all pleasure on another's breast.

Were there no fools, there would be no flatterers.

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

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

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

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

Implementation is the sincerest form of flattery.

Some folks pay a compliment like they went down in their pocket for it.

The flattery of posterity is not worth much more than contemporary flattery, which is worth nothing.

Flattery is the worst and falsest way of showing our esteem.