Flattery Quotes

We must define flattery and praise; they are distinct. Trajan was encouraged to virtue by the panegyric Pliny; Tiberius became obstinate in vice from the flattery of his senators.

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.

Every flatterer lives at the expense of him who listens to him.

Praise to the undeserving is severe satire.

There is no other way to guard yourself against flattery than by making men understand that telling you the truth will not offend you.

I have already settled it for myself so flattery and criticism go down the same drain and I am quite free.

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

Avoid flatterers, for they are thieves in disguise.

Immigration is the sincerest form of flattery.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

The aim of flattery is to soothe and encourage us by assuring us of the truth of an opinion we have already formed about ourselves.

A flatterer never seems absurd: The flatter'd always takes his word.

Our domestic Napoleons, too many of them, give flattery, bonnets and bracelets to women, and everything else but - justice.

Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver; and adulation is not of more service to the people than to kings.

Flattery is all right so long as you don't inhale.

One may define flattery as a base companionship which is most advantageous to the flatterer.

Flee flattery, false praise and fair weather friends

If we did not flatter ourselves, the flattery of others could never harm us.

Perfumed and gallant words make our ears belch.