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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.

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.

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.

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 must be pretty thick before anybody objects to it.

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

Everybody likes a compliment.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.