Flattery Quotes - Page 9

I am an actor and of course I respond very positively to flattery.

Of all sorts of flattery, that which comes from a solemn character and stands before a sermon is the worst-complexioned. Such commendation is a satire upon the author, makes the text look mercenary, and disables the discourse from doing service.

Few human beings are proof against the implied flattery of rapt attention.

If imitation is the greatest form of flattery, Punk, don't flatter me.

True love is mixed up with birdlike squabbles, in which the disputants wound each other to the quick; but a quarrel without animus is, on the contrary, apiece of flattery to the dupe's conceit.

Flattery will get you everywhere," Sam says, "Except, apparently, off a roof.

One can also be undignified and flattering toward a virtue.

If we never flattered ourselves we should have but scant pleasure.

Flattery is false money, which would not be current were it not for our vanity.

Flattery is a base coin which is current only through our vanity.

When the world frowns, we can face it; but let it smile, and we are undone.

In Hollywood, imitation is the most profitable form of flattery. That is the only plausible explanation.

Complimenting someone in an exaggerated way is known as flattery, and flattery will generally get you anything you want.

Katherine Kenton remains among the generation of women who feel that the most sincere form of flattery is the male erection.

Of course you like him; everyone enjoys flattery.

flattery would be worse than vain; there is no consolation in flattery.

Approve not of him who commends all you say.