Quotes About Flattery

Commend a fool for his wit, or a rogue for his honesty and he will receive you into his favour.

When I swore that you're getting more and more beautiful everyday. Well, I was only kidding, honey.

Can honor's voice provoke the silent dust, or flattery soothe the dull, cold ear of death?

Vanity is truly the motive power that moves humanity, and it is flattery that greases the wheels.

Sarcasm is the lowest form of humor but the highest form of flattery.

The ultimate downfall of the computerized holographic receptionist was that there was no amount of flattery, flirtation or chocolate that could convince one to lie for you.

Can't say what impresses me most about my followers – their good looks, their incredible intellects, or their immunity to cheap flattery.

Flattery is like chewing gum. Enjoy it but don't swallow it.

There is flattery in friendship.

The best way to turn a woman's head is to tell her she has a beautiful profile.

Imitation is the highest form of flattery.

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

Era solamente un animo adulatore, di quelli che non sopportano di essere antipatici a qualcuno, neppure a quelli che detestano, aspirano a essere benvoluti perfino a quelli a cui fanno del male.

Flattery is as important a machine as the lever, isn't it, Saxonberg? Give it a proper place to rest, and it can move the world.

Flattery is as important a machine as the lever, isn't it, Saxonberg? Give it a proper place to rest, and it can move the world.)

Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver, and adulation is not of more service to the people than to kings.

Many of the greatest tyrants on the records of history have begun their reigns in the fairest manner. But the truth is, this unnatural power corrupts both the heart and the understanding. And to prevent the least hope of amendment, a king is ever surrounded by a crowd of infamous flatterers, who find their account in keeping him from the least light of reason, till all ideas of rectitude and justice are utterly erased from his mind.

When the leaders choose to make themselves bidders at an auction of popularity, their talents, in the construction of the state, will be of no service. They will become flatterers instead of legislators; the instruments, not the guides, of the people.

Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver, and adulation is not of more service to the people than to kings. I should, therefore, suspend my congratulations on the new liberty of France

There shall be true glory, where no one shall be praised by mistake or in flattery; true honor, which shall be denied to no one worthy, granted to no one unworthy; nor shall any unworthy one ambitiously seek it, where none but the worthy are permitted to be.

Sure flattery never traveled so far as three thousand miles; it is now only for truth, which over takes all things, to reach you at this distance.

Praise undeserved is satire in disguise/

Sycophants, therefore, can dance attendance on the Many as easily and as mischievously as on the One.

To pay attention to flattery or criticism is a waste of time for artists.