Quotes About Flattery

Did we not flatter ourselves, the flattery of others could never hurt us.

Men sometimes think they hate flattery, but they hate only the manner of flattering.

Self-love is the greatest of flatterers.

I will add that I do not believe his admiration of my person, dazzling through I am, to be sincere. He told me I was a beautiful, sparkling lady.

A girl's got to do what she's got to do to make somebody pay her a compliment. If that means moaning 'til the cows come home, then so be it.

I was too old for my father to (be protective), too young to be flattered.

You'll forgive the flowery talk, won't you? Our family does so love to be told they are beautiful. Vanity is an old and venerable habit.

What flatterers say, try to make true.

Non t'accorgi, Diavolo, che tu sei bella come un Angelo?

You've got to kiss arse to get somewhere, to learn. Clock-watchers are no good at kissing arse.

Flattery is like champagne; it soon goes to the head.

What flatterers say, try to make true.

Be circumspect, for to a credulous eye, He comes invisible, veil'd with flattery, And flatterers look like friends, as wolves like dogs...

I hate careless flattery — the kind that exhausts you in your effort to believe it.

[F]lattery is the prolific parent of falsehood.

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 don't like being flattered. It doesn't suit my English sensibilities. Remember, we are the great country of understatement.

Praise undeserved, is satire in disguise.

Definitions from Mulla Do-PiazaFlattery:One of the most promising of businesses: always brisk.

Wisdom is better than flattery, even if bitter in your ears.

Our domestic Napoleons, too many of them, give flattery, bonnets and bracelets to women, and everything else but - justice.

To tell a woman who is forty, "You look like sixteen," is boloney. The blarney way of saying it is "Tell me how old you are, I should like to know at what age women are the most beautiful.

I can spot empty flattery and know exactly where I stand. In the end it's really only my own approval or disapproval that means anything.

If he be so resolved, I can o'ersway him; for he loves to hear That unicorns may be betrayed with trees And bears with glasses, elephants with holes, Lions with toils, and men with flatterers