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It's love that makes the world go round - otherwise it would be flat. — Jay Woodman

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

Moreover, I have heard that those who are fond of praising men to their faces are also fond of damning them behind their backs. — Zhuangzi

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

It's been many years since I had such an exemplary vegetable. — Jane Austen

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

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

Ahh, flattery. It will get you everywhere." "Yeah, it's how I put up with Logan. Tell him he's hot and he rolls right over. — Ella Frank

Imitation isn't the sincerest form of flattery - it's plagiarism. — Red Skelton

'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

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

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

A world without any lies at all is not a good world, because it's artless and because there are no white lies, no flattery. — Ricky Gervais

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

If imitation is the highest form of flattery, than Christians have become pop culture's most devoted admirers. — Skye Jethani

Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, but theft is a sin. — Elena

Men sometimes think they hate flattery, but they hate only the manner of flattering. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

I can spot empty flattery and know exactly where I stand. In the end it's really only my own approval or disapproval that means anything. — Agnetha Faltskog

Approve not of him who commends all you say. — Benjamin Franklin

I think imitation is always the greatest form of flattery. — Simon De Pury

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

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

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

Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver, and adulation is not of more service to the people than to kings. — Edmund Burke

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

Imitation is the sincerest flattery. — Mahatma Gandhi

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

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

A fool can no more see his own folly than he can see his ears. — William Makepeace Thackeray

The best form of flattery is to be admired, imitated or respected. I've always felt proud our fans look up to us or feel we are inspirational. — Cheryl James

A beautiful woman needs no embellishments. But a prideful man may give them to her nevertheless. — Katharine Ashe

A little flattery will support a man through great fatigue. — James Monroe

Flattery labors under the odious charge of servility. — Tacitus

Gossip is what you say about the objects of flattery when they aren't present. — P. J. O'Rourke

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

Emulation is a sincere form of flattery, but individuality is the only form of immortality. — Corey Taylor

But here's the joy: my friend and I are one, Sweet flattery! — William Shakespeare

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

Money is the sincerest of all flattery. Women love to be flattered. So do men. — Robert A. Heinlein

Flattery is no more than what raises in a man's mind an idea of a preference which he has not. — Edmund Burke

Flattery's fire is hidden. Its sweet taste is apparent, but the smoke is bound to come out at last. — Rumi

Can honor's voice provoke the silent dust, or flattery soothe the dull, cold ear of death? — Thomas Gray

The firmest purpose of a woman's heart to well-timed, artful flattery may yield. — George Lillo

There is no flattery so adroit or effectual as that of implicit assent. — William Hazlitt

The world is grown so full of dissimulation and compliment, that men's words are hardly any signification of their thoughts. — Richard Steele

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

for self-love is no more than the soothing of a man's self, which, done to another, is flattery. And — Erasmus

Flattery will get you nowhere. (In response to Wally George calling his band vile and evil.) — Nikolas Schreck

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

When you're appeasing too much, you might be egotistically over-estimating everyone's need for your approval. — Criss Jami

Said I was beautiful, did he? He's being paid for treatment, not flattery. — Lillie Langtry

158. - Flattery is base coin to which only our vanity gives currency. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

imitation really is the most sincere form of flattery. But — Stephen King

All this faux flattery. It's not enough to make me forget he's a dick. Admittedly, though, he's sort of a charismatic dick. — Kendare Blake

Flattery was one of Kissinger's principal tools in winning over Nixon, and a tool he employed shamelessly. — Robert Dallek

There's two things that you don't listen to: flattery, which can't help you, and abuse, which can't hurt you. You have to look at the facts. — Jim Tressel

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

I like rudeness a great deal better than flattery. — Charlotte Bronte

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

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

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

Flattery is a base coin which is current only through our vanity. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Like pollen on a honeybee, flattery clings to the things you tell yourself. — Willis Regier

To pay flattery their country will bleed. — Taliesin

Truth and ceremony are two things. — Marcus Aurelius

Knavery and flattery are blood relations. — Abraham Lincoln

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

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

They say copying is a form of flattery, I say it's lack of originality. — Elizabeth Blade

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 believe
One-half that is profess'd me;
Affection! could I think it Thee,
When Flattery has caress'd me. — Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Nothing like a bit of flattery to grease the wheels. — Lindsey Kelk

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

Imitation is the highest from of flattery. Until it isn't. — Em Bailey

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

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

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 is from the teeth out. Sincere appreciation is from the heart out. — Dale Carnegie

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

Flattery, the dangerous nurse of vice. — Samuel Daniel

Flattery was the best medicine, but even I gag on medicine. — Jemima Pett

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