Quotes About Flattery

Sheer flattery got me into the theater. Flattery always works with me, particularly the flattery of women.

A dog will flatter you but you have to flatter the cat.

I am surrounded by flatterers and fools. It can drive a man to madness,.. . Half of them don't dare tell me the truth, and the other half can't find it.

I am surrounded by flatterers and fools.

The Marquis believed himself to be hardened against flattery. He thought that he had experienced every variety, but he discovered that he was mistaken: the blatantly worshipful look in the eyes of a twelve-year-old, anxiously raised to his, was new to him, and it pierced his defences.

Imitation is the sincerest (form) of flattery.

Woe unto you, when all men shall speak well of you.

We pay a person the compliment of acknowledging his superiority whenever we lie to him.

Be advised that all flatterers live at the expense of those who listen to them.

Flattery is all right - if you don't inhale.

The advantage of doing one's praising to oneself is that one can lay it on so thick and exactly in the right places.

What really flatters a man is that you think him worth flattery.

Few human beings are proof against the implied flattery of rapt attention.

It is simpler and easier to flatter men than to praise them.

I would have praised you more had you praised me less.

As the Greek said, "Many men know how to flatter, few men know how to praise."

The sweetest of all sounds is praise.

Woe unto you, when all men shall speak well of vou!

Perhaps if you address the lady Most politely, most politely, Flatter and impress the lady Most politely, most politely, Humbly beg and humbly sue, She may deign to look on you.

A nice-looking boy pays attention, says the right things, looks at you just a certain way. You're not smart anymore.

Have I mentioned you are the hottest geek I've ever known ?

Nothing is so great an example of bad manners as flattery. If you flatter all the company, you please none; If you flatter only one or two, you offend the rest.

Although I am small, ugly and dirty, I am highly ambitious, and at the slightest flattery, I immediately start to strut like a turkey.

men are undoubtedly more in danger from prosperity than from adversity. for when matters go smoothly, they flatter themselves, and are intoxicated by their success