Quotes About Flattery

Oh, flatter me; for love delights in praises.

The feelings which seek expression in words are mostly egotistical, since they seek to express what flatters our self-love and can show us, as we imagine, in the best light.

Mediocrities can tolerate being surrounded only by flatterers who conceal their mediocrity.

He's no stranger to pretty words.

Flattery will get you everywhere

I am very good at groveling.

It might have been preferable, Eddis admitted, dryly, if you had thrown off your chains of bondage solely for love of me. It would certainly have been more flattering. Standing so near to him, she was looking up into his face and watching it closely. I am willing to accept, however, that we are real people, not characters in a play. We do not, all of us, need to be throwing inkwells. If we are compatible with one another, is that not sufficient?

In a way, watching an attractive, potentially dangerous guy play guitar is a little like watching a tiger agree to do tricks for his trainer. You know that they could just turn and kill you. But you're so flattered and pleased that instead they agreed to stand on a decorative box and wave and count for the crowd that for a while you forget how big the scary part of them really is.

Men would be chosen for jobs on account of fitness to do the work, not because they flattered the irrational dogmas of those in power.

LI QUAN If they ply you with expensive gifts and sweet talk, they are up to something.

Ask yourself which political leadership—your own or that of your enemy—is able to reject flatterers and draw close to the wise.

Often something looks, or is felt to look, better in a photograph. Indeed, it is one of the functions of photography to improve the normal appearance of things. (Hence, one is always disappointed by a photograph that is not flattering.)

Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt, not swallowed.

Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt of, not swallowed.

I thought I recognized you." Really? He remembered me looking like Swamp Thing? How flattering.

Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.

Listening, not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery.

It was flattering to have someone listen so intently to something that was so personal.

The stupidest people suddenly become a little cleverer when we learn that they think well of us

Don't tell a woman she's pretty; tell her there's no other woman like her, and all roads will open to you

He was proud and stubborn, and all the ton looked up to him. Men curried his favor, women flirted like mad. And all the while he'd been terrified every time he'd opened his mouth.

Flattery is all right so long as you don't inhale.

I can't walk down the street anywhere in the world without being stopped. It can be an interruption, but on the whole, it's flattering.

The flattery of posterity is not worth much more than contemporary flattery, which is worth nothing.