Quotes of Flattery - somelinesforyou

“ What really flatters a man is that you think him worth flattering. ”

- George Bernard Shaw

“ Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt of, not swallowed. ”

- Josh Billings

“ I hate careless flattery, the kind that exhausts you in your effort to believe it. ”

- Wilson Mizner

“ None are more taken in by flattery than the proud, who wish to be the first and are not. ”

- Baruch Benedict de Spinoza

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

- William Shakespeare

“ Baloney is flattery laid on so thick it cannot be true, and blarney is flattery so thin we love it. ”

- Fulton John Sheen

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

- Georg C. Lichtenberg

“ Flattery is all right so long as you don't inhale. ”

- Adlai E. Stevenson

“ Listening, not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery. ”

- Dr. Joyce Brothers

“ Immigration is the sincerest form of flattery. ”

- Jack Paar

“ Imitation is the sincerest of flattery. ”

- Charles Caleb Colton

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

- John Churton Collins

“ Baloney is the unvarnished lie laid on so thick you hate it. Blarney is flattery laid on so thin you love it. ”

- Fulton Sheen

“ Flattery makes friends and truth makes enemies. ”

- Unknown

“ Between flattery and admiration there often flows a river of contempt. ”

- Minna Thomas Antrim

“ Everyone likes flattery; and when you come to Royalty you should lay it on with a trowel. ”

- Benjamin Disraeli

“ Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver. ”

- Edmund Burke

“ Flattery is a form of hatred. ”

- The Holy Bible

“ Flattery is all right if you don't inhale. ”

- Adlai E. Stevenson

“ If we did not flatter ourselves, the flattery from others would not harm us. ”

- Unknown

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

- Samuel Johnson

“ The ambitious are forever followed by adulation for they receive the most pleasure from flattery. ”

- Oliver Goldsmith

“ The coin that is most current among mankind is flattery: the only benefit of which is that by hearing what we are not, we may be instructed on what to become. ”

- Unknown

“ 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

“ Advertising - a judicious mixture of flattery and threats. ”

- Northrop Frye

“ Flattery is telling the other person precisely what he thinks about himself. ”

- Dale Carnegie

“ It has been well said that "the arch-flatterer with whom all the petty flatterers have intelligence is a man's self. ”

- Unknown

“ Of praise a mere glutton, he swallow'd what came, And the puff a dunce, he mistook it for fame; Till his relish grown callous, almost to displease, Who pepper'd the highest was surest to please. ”

- Oliver Goldsmith

“ No adulation; 'tis the death of virtue; Who flatters, is of all mankind the lowest Save he who courts the flattery. ”

- Hannah More

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

- Jean Paul Richter
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