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Fake flattery or not, his words spiked my system with happy. Behold, the power of a guy paying attention to a girl.
— Jenny B. Jones
The mutual preference of frankness over flattery is what leads to iron sharpening iron.
— Torry Martin
Wisdom is better than flattery, even if bitter in your ears.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
A flatterer never seems absurd: The flatter'd always takes his word.
— Benjamin Franklin
A man that does not love praise is not a full man.
— Henry Ward Beecher
Nothing is so great an instance of ill-manners as flattery.
— Jonathan Swift
Gallantry of mind consists in saying flattering things in an agreeable manner.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
The habit of pleasing by flattery makes a language soft; the fear of offending by truth makes it circuitous and conventional.
— Walter Savage Landor
A little flattery, like a warm bath and soft towel, will let you get along with yourself, lie down with yourself, and sleep.
— Willis Regier
You will get such flattery as you deserve, and my foot in your arse the rest of the time.
— Joe Abercrombie
No flattery, boy! an honest man cannot live by it; it is a little, sneaking art, which knaves use to cajole and soften fools withal.
— Thomas Otway
'T is an old maxim in the schools, That flattery 's the food of fools; Yet now and then your men of wit Will condescend to take a bit.
— Jonathan Swift
And even if she did find them ugly, she would never say so, because flattery had long since become second nature to her
— Milan Kundera
Do you know what that's like? How good it feels? For once in my life, someone wants me.
— Brynna Gabrielson
Men sometimes think they hate flattery, but they hate only the manner of flattering.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
Emulation is a sincere form of flattery, but individuality is the only form of immortality.
— Corey Taylor
A beautiful woman needs no embellishments. But a prideful man may give them to her nevertheless.
— Katharine Ashe
A fool can no more see his own folly than he can see his ears.
— William Makepeace Thackeray
Because nothing says flattery like a gun to the head.
— Jim Butcher
Hypocrisy can plunge the mind of a man into a dark abyss, when he believes his own self-flattery instead of God's verdict.
— John Calvin
But here's the joy: my friend and I are one, Sweet flattery!
— William Shakespeare
Flattery will get you nowhere. (In response to Wally George calling his band vile and evil.)
— Nikolas Schreck
They told me I was everything. 'Tis a lie, I am not ague-proof.
— William Shakespeare
Flattery is nothing but attention without intention.
— Mary Lindsey
The flattery is nice, but awards don't add up to writing quality songs.
— Chantal Kreviazuk
Of course you like him; everyone enjoys flattery.
— Christopher Paolini
I would give worlds, could I believeOne-half that is profess'd me;
Affection! could I think it Thee,
When Flattery has caress'd me. — Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Flattery succeeds best on minds previously occupied by conceit.
— Norm MacDonald
Money is the sincerest of all flattery. Women love to be flattered. So do men.
— Robert A. Heinlein
I have a car that I call Flattery because it gets me nowhere.
— Henny Youngman
They are like men: if bold, the better of scolding; if timid, the better of praise and flattery.
— Lew Wallace
Flattery is as important a machine as the lever, isn't it, Saxonberg? Give it a proper place to rest, and it can move the world.
— E.L. Konigsburg
Flattery has to overcome my mistrust, and it does.
— Mason Cooley
Flee flattery, false praise and fair weather friends
— Fraser Young
O Beauty, find thyself in love, not in the flattery of thy mirror.
— Rabindranath Tagore
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.
— Anna Akhmatova
Flattery is saying something nice in order to help yourself. Encouragement is saying something true in order help someone else.
— Kevin DeYoung
A flatterer is the shadow of a fool.
— Thomas Overbury
Never was flattery lost on a poet's ear; a simple race, they waste their toil for the vain tribute of a smile.
— Walter Scott
What drink'st thou oft, instead of homage sweet, But poisoned flattery?
— William Shakespeare
Katherine Kenton remains among the generation of women who feel that the most sincere form of flattery is the male erection.
— Chuck Palahniuk
Every woman is infallibly to be gained by every sort of flattery, and every man by one sort or other.
— Bill Vaughan
The happy phrasing of a compliment is one of the rarest of human gifts, and the happy delivery of it another.
— Mark Twain
A little flattery will support a man through great fatigue.
— James Monroe
Flattery will get you nowhere. But don't let that stop you." The
— Julianna Keyes
What I like is bottomless flattery.
— Peter O'Toole
He who is needed must learn to endure flattery.
— Isaac Asimov
I see this evident, that we willingly accord to piety only the services that flatter our passions.
— Michel De Montaigne
Knavery and flattery are blood relations.
— Abraham Lincoln
Flattery makes fools of the best of us.
— Dorothy Salisbury Davis
Because all men are apt to flatter themselves, to entertain the addition of other men's praises is most perilous.
— Walter Raleigh
Truth and ceremony are two things.
— Marcus Aurelius
Approve not of him who commends all you say.
— Benjamin Franklin
Imitation is the sincerest flattery.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver, and adulation is not of more service to the people than to kings.
— Edmund Burke
I think imitation is always the greatest form of flattery.
— Simon De Pury
Flattery was one of Kissinger's principal tools in winning over Nixon, and a tool he employed shamelessly.
— Robert Dallek
imitation really is the most sincere form of flattery. But
— Stephen King
158. - Flattery is base coin to which only our vanity gives currency.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
Cease these sweet words," I protested. "You seek to bend me to your will, but it will not work. Your flattery is naught to me but wind!
— Patrick Rothfuss
To ask advice is in nine cases out of ten to tout for flattery.
— John Churton Collins
There is no flattery so adroit or effectual as that of implicit assent.
— William Hazlitt
I like rudeness a great deal better than flattery.
— Charlotte Bronte
When a cat flatters ... he is not insincere: you may safely take it for real kindness.
— Walter Savage Landor
By flatterers besieged And so obliging that he ne'er obliged.
— Alexander Pope
They say copying is a form of flattery, I say it's lack of originality.
— Elizabeth Blade
Persons who discover a flatterer, do not always disapprove him, because he imagines them considerable enough to deserve his applications.
— William Shenstone
How many weapons are you carrying? I'm beginning to think you have an entire armory in your bag." "Don't start with the flattery. How
— Seanan McGuire
Flattery, the dangerous nurse of vice.
— Samuel Daniel
It is scarcely credible to what degree discernment may be dazzled by the mist of pride, and wisdom infatuated by the intoxication of flattery.
— Samuel Johnson
Flattery is a base coin which is current only through our vanity.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
Nothing like a bit of flattery to grease the wheels.
— Lindsey Kelk
In Hollywood, imitation is the most profitable form of flattery. That is the only plausible explanation ...
— Desson Thomson
Sheer flattery got me into the theater. Flattery always works with me, particularly the flattery of women.
— Carroll O'Connor
Just praise is only a debt, but flattery is a present.
— Samuel Johnson
Flattery is never so obvious to the recipient.
— Orson Scott Card
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.
— Walter Raleigh
I'll lock thy heaven from thee. O, that men's ears should be
To counsel deaf, but not to flattery! — William Shakespeare
I have always found it interesting ... that there are people who regard copyright infringement as a form of flattery.
— Tom Lehrer
Oh, and you accuse me of flattery! Here I waddle about like a fat old duck and you try to tell me I'm lovely.
— Robin Hobb
To pay flattery their country will bleed.
— Taliesin