Best 221 quotes in «flattery quotes» category

I will praise any man that will praise me.

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

Learn that every flatterer Lives at the flattered listeners cost.

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

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

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

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.

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.

Nothing is harder to resist than a bit of flattery.

No man flatters the woman he truly loves.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

Oh, flatter me; for love delights in praises.

One can also be undignified and flattering toward a virtue.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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 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 flattery in friendship.

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

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.

There is not one of us that would not be worse than kings, if so continually corrupted as they are with a sort of vermin called flatterers.

The same man cannot be both Friend and Flatterer.

They told me I was everything. 'Tis a lie, I am not ague-proof.

To be a man's own fool is bad enough, but the vain man is everybody's.

To be flattered is grateful, even when we know that our praises are not believed by those who pronounce them; for they prove, at least, our power, and show that our favour is valued, since it is purchased by the meanness of falsehood.

Very ugly or very beautiful women should be flattered on their understanding, and mediocre ones on their beauty.

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