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Gossip involves saying behind a person’s back what you would never say to his or her face.  Flattery means saying to a person’s face what you would never say behind his or her back.

He does me double wrong That wounds me with the flatteries of his tongue.

He that loves to be flattered is worthy o' the flatterer.

If you had told Sycorax that her son Caliban was as handsome as Apollo, she would have been pleased, witch as she was.

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

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

If any man flatters me, I'll flatter him again; tho' he were my best Friend.

If men of eminence are exposed to censure on one hand, they are as much liable to flattery on the other. If they receive reproaches which are not due to them, they likewise receive praises which they do not deserve.

If solitude deprives of the benefit of advice, it also excludes from the mischief of flattery. But the absence of others' applause is generally supplied by the flattery of one's own breast.

He who praises everybody, praises nobody.

He who says he hates all kinds of flattery, and says so in earnest, has undoubtedly not as yet become acquainted with all kinds of it, whether in substance or in form.

I am not one of those who left the land to the mercy of its enemies. Their flattery leaves me cold, my songs are not for them to praise.

If you tell a woman she is beautiful, whisper it softly, for if the devil hears, he will echo it many times.

Imitation is not just the sincerest form of flattery - it's the sincerest form of learning.

Imitation is the sincerest flattery.

Imitation is the sincerest of flattery.

Imitation is the surest form of flattery and failure. I am not interested with your talk about my ideas. I am more interested in your applying them to your life. If you do not, then you are essentially not in accord with your own mind.

Imitation is flattery

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

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

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

Imitation is always insult--not flattery.

Imitation is the highest form of flattery.

Imitation is flattery, and The Hills Have Eyes is a classic.

Immigration is the sincerest form of flattery.

Imitation is obviously a great form of flattery.

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

Implementation is the sincerest form of flattery.

I never paid you a compliment, Rachel, in my life. Successful love may sometimes use the language of flattery, I admit. But hopeless love, dearest, always speaks the truth.

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

I think imitation is always the greatest form of flattery.

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

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

Invitation is the sincerest flattery.

I will praise any man that will praise me.

It is possible to be below flattery as well as above it. One who trusts nobody will not trust sycophants. One who does not value real glory will not value its counterfeit.

It is the folly of weak-minded people, to imagine they are what flattery or conceit represents them; and that it is useless for them to be what they are not, since they seem already to have acquired the reputation of it.

It is scarcely credible to what degree discernment may be dazzled by the mist of pride, and wisdom infatuated by the intoxication of flattery.

It is worth thought what kind of mind or condition or disposition is open to flattery; for poison would not be spread if the rats ate it not.

It's pleasant to hear these nice words while I'm still alive. I'd rather have the taffy than the epitaphy.

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

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

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

Learn that every flatterer Lives at the flattered listeners cost.

Let flattery, the handmaid of the vices, be far removed (from friendship). [Lat., Assentatio, vitiorum adjutrix, procul amoveatur.]

Knavery and flattery are blood relations.

Mountains of gold would not seduce some men, yet flattery would break them down.

Like pollen on a honeybee, flattery clings to the things you tell yourself.

Look closely at those who patronize you. Half are unfeeling, half untaught.

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