Quotes about Flattery

“I will praise any man that will praise me.”

“Flattery is all right if you don't inhale.”

“Self-love is the greatest of all flatterers.”

“Flattery makes friends and truth makes enemies.”

“Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.”

“A fool flatters himself, a wise man flatters the fool.”

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

“He that loves to be flattered is worthy of the flatterer.”

“Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt, not swallowed.”

“Don't flatter the rich, or appear to willing before the great.”

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

“What really flatters a man is that you think him worth flattering.”

“Between flattery and admiration there often flows a river of contempt.”

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

“I cannot think of any character below the flatterer, except he who envies him.”

“Flatter not thyself in thy faith in God if thou hast not charity for thy neighbor.”

“He that flatters you more than you desire either has deceived you or wishes to deceive.”

“None are more taken in by flattery than the proud, who wish to be the first and are not.”

“Baloney is flattery laid on so thick it cannot be true, and blarney is flattery so thin we love it.”

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

“The more we love our friends, the less we flatter them; it is by excusing nothing that pure love shows itself.”

“Nothing flatters a man as much as the happiness of his wife; he is always proud of himself as the source of it.”

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

“For lack of a better term, they've labeled me a sex symbol. It's flattering and it should happen to every bald, overweight guy.”

“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.”

“The reason that adulation is not displeasing is that, though untrue, it shows one to be of consequence enough, in one way or other, to induce people to lie.”

“Women who are either indisputably beautiful, or indisputably ugly, are best flattered upon the score of their understandings; but those who are in a state of mediocrity are best flattered upon their beauty, or at least their graces: for every woman who is not absolutely ugly, thinks herself handsome.”

“To make a man perfectly happy tell him he works too hard, that he spends too much money, that he is ''misunderstood'' or that he is ''different''; none of this is necessarily complimentary, but it will flatter him infinitely more that merely telling him that he is brilliant, or noble, or wise, or good.”