Flattery Quotes - Page 5

To ask advice is in nine cases out of ten to tout for flattery.

It is easier and handier for men to flatter than to praise.

Learn that every flatterer Lives at the flattered listeners cost.

Flattery is like wine, which exhilarates a man for a moment, but usually ends by going to his head and making him act foolishly.

The public wants work which flatters its illusions.

He who says he hates every kind of flattery, and says it in earnest, certainly does not yet know every kind of flattery.

Imitation is always insult--not flattery.

We swallow with one gulp the lie that flatters us, and drink drop by drop the truth which is bitter to us.

It is possible to be below flattery as well as above it.

If you mean to profit, learn to praise.

Flattery is often a traffic of mutual meanness, where although both parties intend deception, neither are deceived.

Sheer flattery got me into the theater. Flattery always works with me, particularly the flattery of women.

Flattery, though a base coin, is the necessary pocket money at court; where, by custom and consent, it has obtained such a currency that it is no longer a fraudulent, but a legal payment.

People generally despise where they flatter.

I know imitation is the highest form of flattery, but stealing one's identity is totally different.

Oh, flatter me; for love delights in praises.

No visor does become black villainy so well as soft and tender flattery.

There is no flattery so adroit or effectual as that of implicit assent.

Flattery must be pretty thick before anybody objects to it.

Not kings alone--the people, too, have their flatterers.

I have always found it interesting... that there are people who regard copyright infringement as a form of flattery.

Let those flatter who fear; it is not an American art .

Flattery is a juggler, and no kin unto sincerity.

The most subtle flattery that a woman can receive is by actions, not by words.

Praise a stranger with a few nice words and he becomes a stranger that calls you a friend.