Flattery Quotes - Page 8

Wounded pride can take a rich young man far who is surrounded by flatterers since birth.

When we seek appreciation from others, we get not appreciation, but flattery.

Attention is a silent and perpetual flattery.

The most dangerous of all flattery is the inferiority of those about us.

I think imitation is always the greatest form of flattery.

No wonder, Sir, that he is vain; a man who is perpetually flattered in every mode that can be conceived. So many bellows have blown the fire, that one wonders he is not by this time become a cinder.

The world is grown so full of dissimulation and compliment, that men's words are hardly any signification of their thoughts.

We love flattery, even though we are not deceived by it, because it shows that we are of importance enough to be courted.

I don't think imitation is the highest form of flattery, I think it's annoying.

The encomium of one incapable of flattery is indeed flattering.

Flattery is the infantry of negotiation.

The most that can be said of flattery is that it is sometimes a cheap psychological trick with which charlatans and dishonest people lull others into a state of carelessness while they pick their pockets.

I see this evident, that we willingly accord to piety only the services that flatter our passions.

There is not one of us that would not be worse than kings, if so continually corrupted as they are with a sort of vermin called flatterers.

When a woman has not received much flattery in her life, she will be seduced.

Flatter me, but delicately, please, for I am fastidious.

To say a compliment well is a high art and few possess it.

Flattery is so necessary to us that we flatter one another just to be flattered in return.

A few good compliments produce a wealth of good and often financial benefits.

Now flattery can never do good; twice cursed in the giving and the receiving, it ought to be.

Flattery, if judiciously administered, is always acceptable.

Probably one of the reasons why gushing is so unattractive is that it leaves nothing for the listener to do.

In my experience, there are two things that no one will admit to: having no sense of humor and being susceptible to flattery.

Women have, in general, but ne object, which is their beauty; upon which, scarce any flattery is too gross for them to swallow.

Alas! the praise given to the ear Ne'er was nor ne'er can be sincere.