Quotes About Flattery

We seek our happiness outside ourselves, and in the opinion of men we know to be flatterers, insincere, unjust, full of envy, caprice and prejudice.

'T is an old maxim in the schools, That flattery 's the food of fools; Yet now and then your men of wit Will condescend to take a bit.

Nothing is so silly as the expression of a man who is being complimented.

Women are so much in love with compliments that rather than want them, they will compliment one another, yet mean no more by it than the men do.

It has well been said that the arch-flatterer, with whom all petty flatterers have intelligence, is a man's self.

Men despise one another and flatter one another; and men wish to raise themselves above one another, and crouch before one another.

You know That I do fawn on men, and hug them hard, And after scandal them.

Every woman is infallibly to be gained by every sort of flattery, and every man by one sort or other.

Dogs live with man as courtiers 'round a monarch, steeped in the flattery of his notice ... to push their favor in this world of pickings and caresses is, perhaps, the business of their lives.

Cats like men are flatterers.

I will praise any man that will praise me.

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.

Flattery is like wine, which exhilarates a man for a moment, but usually ends by going to his head and making him act foolishly.

The meanest, most contemptible kind of praise is that which first speaks well of a man, and then qualifies it with a But.

Mountains of gold would not seduce some men, yet flattery would break them down.

It is easier and handier for men to flatter than to praise.

Flattery is an ensnaring quality, and leaves a very dangerous impression. It swells a man's imagination, entertains his vanity, and drives him to a doting upon his own person.

Love of flattery, in most men, proceeds from the mean opinion they have of themselves; in women, from the contrary.

Many men know how to flatter, few men know how to praise.

Some men break your heart in two, Some men fawn and flatter, Some men never look at you; And that cleans up the matter.

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

Faith, there hath been many great men that have flattered the people who ne'er loved them.

An old philosopher said to Monsieur Coignard, a Reverend Father: 'You are a pig!' To which Abad Coignard answered: 'You flatter me, sir. But unfortunately, I'm only a man.'

If any man flatters me, I'll flatter him again; tho' he were my best Friend.