Quotes About Flattery

Well, I've never written a line of poetry in my life: it is not my way! But if I *did* write about you I shouldn't call you a paltry daffodil! I should liken you to a rose--one of those yellow ones, with a deep golden heart, and a sweet scent! said Sir Bonamy, warming to the theme. Nonsense! she said briskly. You would be very much more likely to call me a plum partridge, or a Spanish fritter!

Well, I've never written a line of poetry in my life: it is not my way! But if I *did* write about you I shouldn't call you a paltry daffodil! I should liken you to a rose--one of those yellow ones, with a deep golden heart, and a sweet scent! said Sir Bonamy, warming to the theme. Nonsense! she said briskly. You would be very much more likely to call me a plump partridge, or a Spanish fritter!

If it's such a fine place, why did Basanti build his own?" "The Old Pearl is perfectly adequate," said Moncraine. "Basanti built to flatter his self-regard, not fatten his pocketbook." "Because businessmen like to spend lots of money to replace perfectly adequate structures they can use for nearly nothing, right?

No wonder, Sir, that he is vain; a man who is perpetually flattered in every mode that can be conceived. So many bellows have blown the fire, that one wonders he is not by this time become a cinder.

A consciously exaggerated compliment is an offense.

Would a musician feel flattered by the loud applause of an audience if he knew that they were nearly all deaf, and that, to conceal their infirmity, they set to work to clap vigorously as soon as ever they saw one or two persons applauding?

La imitación es la forma más sincera de halago.

What's flattery?" "Flattery," Wendy told him, "is when your daddy says he likes my new yellow slacks even if he doesn't or when he says I don't need to take off five pounds." "Oh. Is it lying for fun?" "Something very like that." He had been looking at her closely and now said: "You're pretty, Mommy." He frowned in confusion when they exchanged a glance and then burst into laughter.

He that loves to be flattered is worthy o' the flatterer.

Among all the diseases of the mind there is not one more epidemical or more pernicious than the love of flattery.

The Hollywood tradition I like best is called "sucking up to the stars."

It is quite annoying that we have to change the sound we invented just to avoid sounding like people who simply copy us, but... it is flattering and of course challenging.

Flattery is the worst and falsest way of showing our esteem

'Tis an old maxim in the schools,That flattery's the food of fools;Yet now and then your men of witWill condescend to take a bit.

Our credulity is greatest concerning the things we know least about. And since we know least about ourselves, we are ready to believe all that is said about us. Hence the mysterious power of both flattery and calumny.

A wise man will always allow a fool to rob him of ideas without yelling "Thief." If he is wise he has not been impoverished. Nor has the fool been enriched. The thief flatters us by stealing. We flatter him by complaining.

The problem with buttering up the boss is that bosses tend to move on, which can mean a lot of wasted butter.

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

The same man cannot be both friend and flatterer.

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

I'm very cognizant of the image that's being put out there and the way in which people perceive me. I'm honored and flattered that they see me as being a decent human being. I try my best to be a decent human being, but I fall short of the mark like we all do on a regular basis.

Getting hit on by both genders is such a champagne problem.

There are a lot of guys in Hollywood who clap you on the back just a little too hard.

I've met a lot of really friendly people who are incredibly happy for me, which is really flattering and humbling.