Best 221 quotes in «flattery quotes» category

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

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 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.

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

I will praise any man that will praise me.

Knavery and flattery are blood relations.

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

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

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.]

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

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

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

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

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

No man flatters the woman he truly loves.

Nothing is so great an example of bad manners as flattery. If you flatter all the company, you please none; If you flatter only one or two, you offend the rest.

Nothing is harder to resist than a bit of flattery.

Nothing is so great an instance of ill-manners as flattery.

O Beauty, find thyself in love, not in the flattery of thy mirror.

No visor does become black villainy so well as soft and tender flattery.

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

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.

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

Oh, flatter me; for love delights in praises.

One can also be undignified and flattering toward a virtue.

Patron: One who countenances, supports or protects. Commonly a wretch who supports with insolence, and is repaid in flattery.

Perfumed and gallant words make our ears belch.

Persons who discover a flatterer, do not always disapprove him, because he imagines them considerable enough to deserve his applications.

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.

Praise to the undeserving is severe satire.

Praise a stranger with a few nice words and he becomes a stranger that calls you a friend.

The habit of pleasing by flattery makes a language soft; the fear of offending by truth makes it circuitous and conventional.

Slander, in the strict meaning of the term, comes under the head of lying; but it is a kind of lying which, like its antithesis flattery, ought to be set apart for special censure.

The flatterer easily insinuates himself into the closet, while honest merit stands shivering in the hall or antechamber.

Sarcasm is the lowest form of humor but the highest form of flattery.

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

The love of one's own sex is precious, for it is neither provoked by vanity nor retained by flattery; it is genuine and sincere.

The most skillful flattery is to let a person talk on, and be a listener.

The most subtle flattery that a woman can receive is by actions, not by words.

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.

There is no flattery so adroit or effectual as that of implicit assent.

There can hardly, I believe, be imagined a more desirable pleasure than that of praise unmixed with any possibility of flattery.

There is flattery in friendship.

There is no food more satiating than milk and honey; and just as such foods produce disgust for the palate, so perfumed and gallant words make our ears belch.

The skilful class of flatterers praise the discourse of an ignorant friend and the face of a deformed one.

The same man cannot be both Friend and Flatterer.

There is nothing in the world more difficult than candor, and nothing easier than flattery. If there is a hundredth of a fraction of a false note to candor, it immediately produces dissonance, and as a result, exposure. But in flattery, even if everything is false down to the last note, it is still pleasant, and people will listen not without pleasure; with coarse pleasure, perhaps, but pleasure nevertheless.