Best 221 quotes in «flattery quotes» category

A man who does not love praise is not a full man.

Among all the diseases of the mind there is not one more epidemical or more pernicious than the love of flattery.

A man who flatters a woman hopes either to find her a fool or to make her one.

Avoid flatterers, for they are thieves in disguise.

Am I the only person in the world who is shocked and amazed at the ongoing flattery of uebergeek Mark Zuckerberg?

But it is hard to know them from friends, they are so obsequious and full of protestations; for a wolf resembles a dog, so doth a flatterer a friend.

Ausonius must be read to be believed! As poet, no subject is too trivial for him; as courtier, no flattery too excessive.

By flatterers besieged And so obliging that he ne'er obliged.

Copying or imitation is the highest form of flattery.

Direct, forceful, energetic. Loves power, eats up publicity and flattery... Can turn on charm at will and knows it.

Everybody likes a compliment.

Excellent flatterers welcome attentive audiences; mighty potentates enjoy public praise. In the most pleasing situation, a flatterer would genuinely admire the flatteree, please that person, please other present company, be pleased to stagger rivals, and get something out of it: applause, promotion, a favor, reciprocal praise. Flattery is as social as a banquet.

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

Flatterers are the worst kind of enemies. [Lat., Pessimum genus inimicorum laudantes.]

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

Flattery in courtship is the highest insolence, for whilst it pretends to bestow on you more than you deserve, it is watching an opportunity to take from you what you really have.

Flattery is like chewing gum. Enjoy it but don't swallow it.

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

Flattery is praise without foundation.

Flattery makes fools of the best of us.

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

Flattery has to overcome my mistrust, and it does.

Flattery, if judiciously administered, is always acceptable.

Flattery is a juggler, and no kin unto sincerity.

Flattery is counterfeit, and like counterfeit money, it will eventually get you into trouble if you pass it to someone else.

Flattery is like friendship in show, but not in fruit.

Flattery is praise insincerely given for an interested purpose.

Flattery is the infantry of negotiation.

Flattery is useful when dealing with youngsters.

Flattery of the verbal kind is gross. In short, applause is of too coarse a nature to be swallowed in the gross, though the extract or tincture be ever so agreeable.

Flattery succeeds best on minds previously occupied by conceit.

Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.

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

Flattery is the worst and falsest way of showing our esteem.

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.

Flattery is a foolish suicide; she destroys herself with her own hands.

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

Flattery labors under the odious charge of servility.

Flattery was formerly a vice; it has now become the fashion.

Flee flattery, false praise and fair weather friends

Attention is a silent and perpetual flattery.

Flattery and insults raise the same question: What do you want?

Flattery.... gets its kicks by flirting with insult and ridicule.

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

Flattery leads to vulgarity; the flatterer is despised.

For praise too dearly lov'd, or warmly sought, Enfeebles all internal strength of thought; And the weak soul within itself unblest, Leans for all pleasure on another's breast.

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 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.