Quotes About Flattery

The battery of flattery received and enjoyed as lottery by a man from the coterie just flattens his growth inconspicuously but consistently.

The crowd goes to see the inauguration but what they largely find lengthy oration, flowery felicitation and flattering admiration of one another amongst the key dignitaries in their speech from the stage.

When a fox gives the sermon, the wolves are largely there in the congregation to offer him a fake appreciation on his oration and quotation, but later on that audience only makes a big fun of him in his absence.

Patience is a flatterer, sir, and an ass, sir.

A flatterer is a friend who is your inferior, or pretends to be so.

No man of high and generous spirit is ever willing to indulge in flattery; the good may feel affection for others, but will not flatter them.

It's flattering to people who stop you and say that you've helped them and all. But, again, you know, you've got to stay humble because as quick as you came up, you can come down.

Gone are the days when imitation equalled flattery. What happens today, is essentially an entire generation looking outward - not for inspiration, but appropriation - because quite frankly, they're lost and their role models are increasingly questionable.

Clemens, Seaver, Gibson, Maddux - I just don't see myself in that category. I'm flattered that maybe it's debatable at this point.

Deception, flattering, lying, deluding, talking behind the back, putting up a false front, living in borrowed splendor, wearing a mask, hiding behind convention, playing a role for others and for oneself – in short, a continuous fluttering around the solitary flame of vanity – is so much the rule and the law among men that there is almost nothing which is less comprehensible than how an honest and pure drive for truth could have arisen among them.

Most sound minds resent flattery, because they see the egotism behind the screen of altruism.

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

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

No matter how happily a woman may be married, it always pleases her to discover that there is a really nice man who wishes she were not.

Commend a fool for his wit, or a rogue for his honesty and he will receive you into his favor.

All a writer wants is to be read, and people are so flattering and lovely. I mean, there are witches out there as well. But most are so kind.

Do not let a flattering woman coax and wheedle you and deceive you; she is after your barn.

No matter how happily a woman may be married, it always pleases her to discover that there is a nice man who wishes that she were not.

Naturally, there are times when every woman likes to be flattered... to feel she is the most important thing in someone's world. Only a man can paint this picture.

'Pretty Lady' is the conversation piece where you just need to compliment your lady. If you are in a club setting, and you just been eyeing a beautiful woman, this song came from me trying to compliment women and them turning their face up at me.

They say imitation is the best form of flattery. That is particularly the case if you're a U.S. presidential candidate and pundits are likening you to a conservative giant like Ronald Reagan.

Flattery and deceit are the darlings of great men, and so with these men spread the butter on thick, if you want to get something out of them, otherwise you'll come home to me with a full belly and an empty purse.

his manner had the heavy ease of a politician, poised between bullying and flattery.

When people flatter you constantly it is very tempting to think you deserve it.