Quotes About Flattery

How have I survived uncorrupted this long, surrounded by oil-tongued flatterers like you

He who sports compliments, unless he takes good aim, may miss his mark, and be wounded by the recoil of his own weapon.

It is necessary to the success of flattery, that it be accommodated to particular circumstances or characters, and enter the heart on that side where the passions are ready to receive it.

The sentiment of flattery is instinctive with people of abject condition; they have the sense of it, as the wild animal has that of hearing and smell.

lisonja? Lo cierto era que la cuestión

Next to hating their enemies, men are most inclined to flatter them.

Pon my sivvy, Miss Lambert! Aren't you quite the dandyzette today? Fit to knock a feller oolter-poolter on his beam ends!

Truth is contrary to our nature, not so error, and this for a very simple reason: truth demands that we should recognize ourselves as limited, error flatters us that, in one way or another, we are unlimited.

Morris read through the letter. Was it a shade too fulsome? No, that was another law of academic life: it is impossible to be excessive in flattery of one's peers.

In the name of respecting the reality, keep the flatterers out of your life!

Any other boy would be flattered. Pleased with himself. Any other boy would go straight to the seat she'd saved for him every day, not just when there's nowhere else to sit. Any other boy would lean close to compare notes. Borrow a pen. Compliment her. Tease her to find out if she has a steady boyfriend. Beg her for a date.

Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.

Meddle not with him that flattereth with his lips.

There is a moment of difficulty and danger at which flattery and falsehood can no longer deceive, and simplicity itself can no longer be misled.

Gossip is saying behind their back what you would not say to their face. Flattery is saying to their face what you would not say behind their back.

I must not say what I truly think, or you will tell me I flatter you-but I can only speak what I feel-and very often I cannot even do that when the feeling is very deep.

Living in Hollywood, it's easy to have someone flatter you. That doesn't help me.

Early on I realized when you write a song about someone, it flatters them on some level, and gives you a lot of room to move within a relationship. A song can kind of get the girl, for sure.

I'm flattered by the fact that most people tell me they don't know what my politics are.

Leaders of the Church have often been Narcissus, flattered and sickeningly excited by their courtiers. The court is the leprosy of the papacy.

I'm flattered that people want to hear me talk about nothing.

If anybody sounds like me... everyone knows me, I'm flattered.

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

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