Quotes About Flattery

If you are fearful, a horse will back off. If you are calm and confident, it will come forward. For those who are often flattered or feared, the horse can be a welcome mirror of the best in human nature.

We seldom praise anyone in good earnest, except such as admire us.

Many know how to flatter, few know how to praise.

Usually we praise only to be praised.

We do not praise others, ordinarily, but in order to be praised ourselves.

We all want to be praised, right?

Words really flattering are not those which we prepare but those which escape us unthinkingly.

Gossip is what you say about the objects of flattery when they aren't present.

I certainly like your mouth." --Cedric

es una vieja máxima de las escuelas / que la adulación es el alimento de los tontos».

It is hard to resist a flatterer who gets it right.

Should the poor be flattered?—Shakespeare.

Rather than flattering Louis XIV, Fouquet's elaborate party offended the king's vanity. Louis would not admit this to anyone, of course—instead, he found a convenient excuse to rid himself of a man who had inadvertently made him feel insecure. Such is the fate, in some form or other, of all those who unbalance the master's sense of self, poke holes in his vanity, or make him doubt his pre-eminence.

Yeah, tell me I'm a bottle of single malt scotch, she thought. That's the way to my heart.

The genteel is a mighty catafalque of service-with-a-smile and flattering solicitude smothering every spontaneous movement of thought or feeling.

Because I cannot flatter and look fair, Smile in men's faces, smooth, deceive, and cog, Duck with French nods and apish courtesy, I must be held a rancorous enemy.

you may call a person vain, and they will smile; you may call them immoral, and they may even feel flattered - but call them narrow-minded and they have done with you.

Human life is thus only an endless illusion. Men deceive and flatter each other. No one speaks of us in our presence as he does when we are gone. Society is based on mutual hypocrisy.

Everybody likes compliment.

His frustrations are concealed, his raw lust for colonies moderated by the knowledge that he must depend on subterfuge and flattery.

People that are obsessed with hating you, feel flattered. Their whole lives revolve around you.

It is better to fall among crows than flatterers; for those devour only the dead - these the living.

If someone is giving you a compliment, I don't think they should have to tell you they're giving you one; it should probably be obvious to the person receiving it.

To a woman flattery is not flattery.It is a compliment, which unfortunately in these miserable days has become all to rare. A woman is not a piece of steel furniture; she is a flower - she does not ask for reality; she wants the warm, gay sun of flattery.It is better to say something pretty to her every day, than to slave grimly for her all your life.