Quotes About Flattery

He who flatters a man is his enemy. he who tells him of his faults is his maker.

Flattery is no more than what raises in a man's mind an idea of a preference which he has not.

But the fact that the debased culture of which rap music is a product receives such serious attention and praise deludes its listeners into supposing that nothing finer exists than what they already know and like. Such flattery is thus the death of aspiration, and lack of aspiration is, of course, one of the causes of passivity.

Flattery may be considered as a mode of companionship, degrading but profitable to him who flatters.

Grant me prudently to avoid him that flatters me, and to endure patiently him that contradicts me.

Katherine Kenton remains among the generation of women who feel that the most sincere form of flattery is the male erection.

Flattery is addictive. Convince others they are special. Assure them they have talent. Make yourself the source of people's self worth. Doing so binds them to you and it preempts them from developing their skills and proving their true potential.

Flattery is addictive. Convince others they're special. Assure them they have talent. Make yourself the source of people's self-worth. Doing so binds them to you and it preempts them from developing their skills and proving their true potential.

He had certainly set his eyes on more voluptuous creatures , but something about her lack of glamour engaged him. Such women were in his experience often more entertaining company than beauties like Julia. They could be flattered or bullied into acts the beauties would never countenance and be grateful for the attention.

It flattered her, where she was most susceptible of flattery, to think how, wound about in their hearts, however long they lived she would be woven...

Damn it, Madam, you are loveliness incarnate," which was the truth.

Vagyst?-geriausias komplimentas,kok? galima pasakyti daiktui.

You know when someone's over-flattering you in a way. You smile but you can't believe it.

Dude you say the best stuff. You're so getting lucky.

Imitation is the sincerest of flattery.

Although a skillful flatterer is a most delightful companion if you have him all to yourself, his taste becomes very doubtful when he takes to complimenting other people.

T]hey somehow conveyed to me that they were all toadies and humbugs, but that each of them pretended not to know that the others were toadies and humbugs: because the admission that he or she did know it, would have made him or her out to be a toady and humbug.

great men are urged on to the abuse of power (when they need urging, which is not often), by their flatterers and dependents,

Flattery is like smoking — it is not dangerous so long as you do not inhale.

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

Flattery isn't the highest compliment – parasitism is.

Groucho: You know I think you're the most beautiful woman in the world? Woman: Really? Groucho: No, but I don't mind lying if it gets me somewhere.

He lies down next to me. He says, 'You know - you have a face to die for/' 'Well, don't die,' I say, "we just met.

While an Edwardian dandy might have wooed his dimpled darling with lovey-dovey terms of endearment, a modern Romeo might use a more contemporary line in flattery: 'Bae, you is one cool, sick, mean bitch.