Flattery quotes

Flattery is all right so long as you don't inhale.
-- Adlai E. Stevenson

#Humility #Long #Flattery

To be most effective, flattery is always best applied with a trowel.
-- Alan Bradley

#Flattery

I know imitation is the highest form of flattery, but stealing one's identity is totally different.
-- AnnaLynne McCord

#Identity #Different #Flattery

My passport photo is one of the most remarkable photographs I have ever seen- no retouching, no shadows, no flattery-just stark me.
-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh

#Photography #Shadow #Flattery

Nothing is harder to resist than a bit of flattery.
-- Arnold Lobel

#Work #Flattery #Harder

Of all wild beasts preserve me from a tyrant; and of all tame a flatterer.
-- Ben Jonson

#Tyrants #Flattery #Beast

Every woman is infallibly to be gained by every sort of flattery, and every man by one sort or other.
-- Bill Vaughan

#Men #Flattery

Invitation is the sincerest flattery.
-- Carolyn Wells

#Flattery #Invitations

Imitation is the highest form of flattery.
-- Charles Caleb Colton

#Flattery #Imitation #Form

Imitation is the sincerest of flattery.
-- Charles Caleb Colton

#Flattery #Imitation

Immitation is the sincerest form of flattery.
-- Charles Caleb Colton

#Flattery #Form

If you mean to profit, learn to praise.
-- Charles Churchill

#Mean #Flattery #Praise

It is possible to be below flattery as well as above it.
-- Charles R. Forbes

#Flattery #Wells

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

#Males #Generations #Flattery

When we are not engaged in thinking about some definite problem, we usually spend about 95 percent of our time thinking about ourselves. Now, if we stop thinking about ourselves for a while and begin to think of the other person's good points, we won't have to resort to flattery so cheap and false that it can be spotted almost before it is out of the mouth.
-- Dale Carnegie

#Thinking #Mouths #Flattery

Complimenting someone in an exaggerated way is known as flattery, and flattery will generally get you anything you want...
-- Daniel Handler

#Want #Way #Flattery

Flattery is a lie covered in a bed of flowery words.
-- Deborah Smith

#Lying #Bed #Flattery

We swallow with one gulp the lie that flatters us, and drink drop by drop the truth which is bitter to us.
-- Denis Diderot

#Lying #Bitter #Flattery

They say one of the greatest forms of flattery is for your son to follow in your footsteps. And so I enjoy that greatest form of flattery, without a doubt.
-- Dennis Franchione

#Son #Doubt #Flattery

In Hollywood, imitation is the most profitable form of flattery. That is the only plausible explanation...
-- Desson Thomson

#Hollywood #Flattery #Imitation

Flattery makes fools of the best of us.
-- Dorothy Salisbury Davis

#Fool #Flattery

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.
-- Edith Sitwell

#Encouragement #Opinion #Flattery

Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.
-- Edmund Burke

#Flattery #Giver

Flattery is praise without foundation.
-- Eliza Leslie

#Foundation #Flattery #Praise

You can stroke people with words.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald

#Writing #People #Flattery

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

#Giving #Justice #Flattery

We sometimes imagine we hate flattery, but we only hate the way we are flattered.
-- Francois de La Rochefoucauld

#Hate #Way #Flattery

Imitation is always insult--not flattery.
-- Frank Lloyd Wright

#Flattery #Insult #Imitation

Baloney is flattery laid on so thick it cannot be true, and blarney is flattery so thin we love it.
-- Fulton J. Sheen

#Love #Catholic #Flattery

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.
-- Georg C. Lichtenberg

#Hate #Substance #Flattery

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

#Learning #Flattery #Imitation

No man flatters the woman he truly loves.
-- Henry Theodore Tuckerman

#Men #Flattery

Flattery is praise insincerely given for an interested purpose.
-- Henry Ward Beecher

#Criticism #Purpose #Flattery

A man that does not love praise is not a full man.
-- Henry Ward Beecher

#Men #Doe #Flattery

Flattery is useful when dealing with youngsters.
-- Isaac Asimov

#Flattery #Youngsters

If imitation is the greatest form of flattery, Punk, don't flatter me.
-- J-Ro

#Rap #Hip Hop #Flattery

Immigration is the sincerest form of flattery.
-- Jack Paar

#Immigration #Flattery #Form

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

#Attention #Flattery #Proof

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

#Merit #Honest #Flattery

Every flatterer lives at the expense of him who listens to him.
-- Jean de La Fontaine

#Flattery #Expenses #Flatterer

It is easier and handier for men to flattery than to praise.
-- Jean Paul

#Men #Criticism #Flattery

It is easy to flatter; it is harder to praise.
-- Jean Paul

#Flattery #Praise #Easy

Of all sorts of flattery, that which comes from a solemn character and stands before a sermon is the worst-complexioned. Such commendation is a satire upon the author, makes the text look mercenary, and disables the discourse from doing service.
-- Jeremy Collier

#Character #Looks #Flattery

Because nothing says flattery like a gun to the head.
-- Jim Butcher

#Gun #Flattery

To ask advice is in nine cases out of ten to tout for flattery.
-- John Churton Collins

#Advice #Nine #Flattery

Never patronise someone who knows they don't deserve it, for they will be quick to compliment your failures.
-- John Stride

#Flattery #Compliment #Deserve

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

#Flattery #Manners #Ill

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

#Flattery #Persons

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.
-- Joseph Addison

#Men #Hands #Flattery

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

#Publicity #Flattery #Power Of Love

Whitney: You black-hearted, treacherous, conniving scoundrel. Clayton: Your flattery warms my heart
-- Judith McNaught

#Heart #Black #Flattery

Flattery won't hurt you if you don't swallow it.
-- Kin Hubbard

#Hurt #Flattery

Implementation is the sincerest form of flattery.
-- L Peter Deutsch

#Flattery #Form

Love of another is merely empty flattery and self-deception for one who cannot accept himself without pretense.
-- L.E. Modesitt Jr.

#Self #Deception #Flattery

In the best, the friendliest and simplest relations flattery or praise is necessary, just as grease is necessary to keep wheels turning.
-- Leo Tolstoy

#Grease #Wheels #Flattery

Alas! the praise given to the ear Ne'er was nor ne'er can be sincere.
-- Letitia Elizabeth Landon

#Ears #Flattery #Praise

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

#Ugly #Flattery #Enough

Women have, in general, but ne object, which is their beauty; upon which, scarce any flattery is too gross for them to swallow.
-- Lord Chesterfield

#Beauty #Flattery #Gross

Flattery will get you everywhere.
-- Mae West

#Flattery

Imitation is the sincerest flattery.
-- Mahatma Gandhi

#Leadership #Flattery #Imitation

Let flattery, the handmaid of the vices, be far removed .
-- Marcus Tullius Cicero

#Vices #Flattery #Handmaids

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

#Vices #Flattery #Handmaids

In my experience, there are two things that no one will admit to: having no sense of humor and being susceptible to flattery.
-- Margaret George

#Two #Sense Of Humor #Flattery

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

#Unattractive #Flattery #Reason

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

#Giving #Receiving #Flattery

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.
-- Maria Mitchell

#Sex #Vanity #Flattery

A few good compliments produce a wealth of good and often financial benefits.
-- Mariette Hartley

#Benefits #Financial #Flattery

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

#Return #Flattery #Flattered

Imitation is flattery, and The Hills Have Eyes is a classic.
-- Michael Berryman

#Eye #Classic #Flattery

Flattery leads to vulgarity; the flatterer is despised.
-- Nachman of Breslov

#Flattery #Vulgarity #Flatterer

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

#Men #Way #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.
-- Norm MacDonald

#People #Reputation #Flattery

We would seldom be deceived by flattery, did our own conceit not promote the delusion.
-- Norm MacDonald

#Flattery #Delusion #Deceived

Imitation is obviously a great form of flattery.
-- Peyton Manning

#Flattery #Imitation #Form

The heart of a woman is never so full of affection that there does not remain a little corner for flattery and love.
-- Pierre de Marivaux

#Heart #Affection #Flattery

Perfumed and gallant words make our ears belch.
-- Pietro Aretino

#Ears #Flattery #Gallant

I don't think imitation is the highest form of flattery, I think it's annoying.
-- Pink

#Thinking #Flattery #Annoying

What valor cannot win, flattery may.
-- Publilius Syrus

#Winning #May #Flattery

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

#Beauty #Mirrors #Flattery

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

#Believe #Flattery #Praise

Flattery, the dangerous nurse of vice.
-- Samuel Daniel

#Nurse #Vices #Flattery

He who praises everybody, praises nobody.
-- Samuel Johnson

#Inspirational #Criticism #Flattery

Just praise is only a debt, but flattery is a present.
-- Samuel Johnson

#Debt #Flattery #Praise

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.
-- Sarah Fielding

#Opportunity #Flattery #Insolence

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

#Nice #Flattery #Stranger

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

#Inferiority #Flattery #Dangerous

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

#Action #Flattery #Subtle

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

#May #Companionship #Flattery

A flatterer is the shadow of a fool.
-- Thomas Overbury

#Shadow #Fool #Flattery

Copying is the highest form of flattery
-- Tito Sotto

#Copying #Flattery #Form

I have always found it interesting... that there are people who regard copyright infringement as a form of flattery.
-- Tom Lehrer

#Interesting #People #Flattery

The god-who-serves-ME requires flattery, not worship.
-- Tom Wells

#Flattery #Worship

Not kings alone--the people, too, have their flatterers.
-- Victor de Riqueti, marquis de Mirabeau

#Kings #People #Flattery

Because all men are apt to flatter themselves, to entertain the addition of other men's praises is most perilous.
-- Walter Raleigh

#Men #Flattery #Praise

Cats like men are flatterers.
-- Walter Savage Landor

#Cat #Men #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.
-- Washington Gladden

#Lying #Special #Flattery

There is flattery in friendship.
-- William Shakespeare

#Real #Real Friends #Flattery

Sheer flattery got me into the theater. Flattery always works with me, particularly the flattery of women.
-- Carroll O'Connor

#Flattery #Theater #Sheer

Flee flattery, false praise and fair weather friends
-- Fraser Young

#Weather #Flattery #Praise

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

#Criticism #Flattery #Drains