Quotes About Flattery

Although men flatter themselves with their great actions, they are not so often the result of a great design as of chance.

Flatterers and men of learning do not accord well with each other.

All love is betrayal, in that it flatters life. The loveless man is best armed.

Because all men are apt to flatter themselves, to entertain the addition of other men's praises is most perilous.

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

Well, I suppose you know that men will stand a good deal when they are flattered.

Never worry about what you say to a man. They're so conceited that they never believe you mean it if it's unflattering.

Vanity is apt to inspire contempt, but that becomes immediately tempered by a gentler and more gracious feeling; for the vain man desires to win our approbation, and in this way he flatters us.

There is nothing which so poisons princes as flattery, nor anything whereby wicked men more easily obtain credit and favor with them.

There is no applause that so flatters a man as that which he wrings from unwilling throats.

I have always said that if I were a rich man, I would employ a professional praiser.

Flattery is false money, which would not be current were it not for our vanity.

For so remarkably perverse is the nature of man that he despises whoever courts him, and admires whoever will not bend before him.

Nature has hardly formed a woman ugly enough to be insensible to flattery upon her person.

Let those flatter, who fear: it is not an American art. To give praise where it is not due, might be well from the venal, but would ill beseem those who are asserting the rights of human nature.

and, indeed, nature has so made us, that we all love to be flattered and to please ourselves with our own notions

Popular culture is a place where pity is called compassion, flattery is called love, propaganda is called knowledge, tension is called peace, gossip is called news, and auto-tune is called singing.

Poetry and consumption are the most flattering of diseases.

Feel you the barren flattery of a rhyme? Can poets soothe you, when you pine for bread, By winding myrtle round your ruin'd shed?

Everyone likes flattery; and when you come to Royalty you should lay it on with a trowel.

In politics, yesterday's lie is attacked only to flatter today's.

The most positive men are the most credulous, since they most believe themselves, and advise most with their falsest flatterer and worst enemy--their own self-love.

I am an actor and of course I respond very positively to flattery.

Never trust the one who praise you frankly