Quotes and Sayings About Flattery
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Flattery is all right so long as you don't inhale.
-- Adlai E. Stevenson -
To be most effective, flattery is always best applied with a trowel.
-- Alan BradleySource : Alan Bradley (2016). “The Flavia de Luce Series 7-Book Bundle”, p.576, Delacorte Press
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I know imitation is the highest form of flattery, but stealing one's identity is totally different.
-- AnnaLynne McCord -
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 -
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Nothing is harder to resist than a bit of flattery.
-- Arnold Lobel -
Of all wild beasts preserve me from a tyrant; and of all tame a flatterer.
-- Ben Jonson -
Every woman is infallibly to be gained by every sort of flattery, and every man by one sort or other.
-- Bill Vaughan -
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Imitation is the highest form of flattery.
-- Charles Caleb Colton -
Imitation is the sincerest of flattery.
-- Charles Caleb ColtonSource : Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.114
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Immitation is the sincerest form of flattery.
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If you mean to profit, learn to praise.
-- Charles Churchill -
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It is possible to be below flattery as well as above it.
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Katherine Kenton remains among the generation of women who feel that the most sincere form of flattery is the male erection.
-- Chuck Palahniuk -
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 -
Complimenting someone in an exaggerated way is known as flattery, and flattery will generally get you anything you want...
-- Daniel Handler -
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Flattery is a lie covered in a bed of flowery words.
-- Deborah Smith -
We swallow with one gulp the lie that flatters us, and drink drop by drop the truth which is bitter to us.
-- Denis Diderot -
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 -
In Hollywood, imitation is the most profitable form of flattery. That is the only plausible explanation...
-- Desson ThomsonSource : "'101 Dalmatians': A Little Spotty" by Desson Howe, www.washingtonpost.com. November 27, 1996.
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Flattery makes fools of the best of us.
-- Dorothy Salisbury DavisSource : Dorothy Salisbury Davis (2014). “A Death in The Life”, p.280, Open Road Media
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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 SitwellSource : "The Last Years of a Rebel : A Memoir of Edith Sitwell". Book by Elizabeth Salter, 1967.
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Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.
-- Edmund Burke -
Flattery is praise without foundation.
-- Eliza LeslieSource : Eliza Leslie (1853). “The Behaviour Book: A Manual for Ladies”, p.247
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Our domestic Napoleons, too many of them, give flattery, bonnets and bracelets to women, and everything else but - justice ...
-- Fanny FernSource : Fanny Fern (1868). “Folly as it Flies”, p.31
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We sometimes imagine we hate flattery, but we only hate the way we are flattered.
-- Francois de La Rochefoucauld -
Imitation is always insult--not flattery.
-- Frank Lloyd Wright -
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Baloney is flattery laid on so thick it cannot be true, and blarney is flattery so thin we love it.
-- Fulton J. Sheen -
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