Quotes About Flattery

Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt, not swallowed.

I do not listen to criticism or flattery, one weakens you and the other angers you.

The fool within himself is the object of pity, until he is flattered.

The art of pleasing is the art of deception.

The bad poet is a toady mimicking nature.

I feel flattered that people like the way I look, but it doesn't help you win points.

It's the ultimate compliment to be imitated or at least be somebody's influence, for sure.

So when they come around and say they want to do our stuff in America, it's compliment really.

Anytime anybody impersonates you, it's a great compliment.

Being compared to 'The Rocky Horror Picture Show' is a huge compliment.

Imitation is flattery. There was once a survey of who was the most imitated celebrity in Latin American countries, especially in Brazil and Argentina, and I was in third place after Elvis Presley and Michael Jackson.

Many performers try to sustain a high point in their careers by keeping themselves around those who are overanxious to tell them how good they are.

A sex symbol? A symbol of sex? I don't think that I am a sex symbol, although it's very flattering. I'm 59, now, so I think I'm possibly past my sell-by date. I think I am.

I find the whole concept of women screaming at me so odd. It's very flattering, but I don't think I will ever consider myself to be a sex symbol.

If you lived on cabbage, you would not be obliged to flatter the powerful." The young man promptly replied, "If you flattered the powerful, you would not be obliged to live on cabbage.

My God, ma'am, you're so pretty I'd walk ten miles barefooted on a freezing morning to stand in your shit.

A practitioner in panegyric, or, to speak more plainly, a professor of the art of puffing.

'Handsome' means many things to many people. If people consider me handsome, I feel flattered - and have my parents to thank for it. Realistically, it doesn't hurt to be good-looking, especially in this business.

A woman's flattery may inflate a man's head a little, but her criticism goes straight to his heart, and contracts it so that it can never again hold quite so much love for her.

You are so easily flattered, brother.' 'Because I have so many qualities to praise!

Imitation is flattery

Beautiful,' Jason exclaimed. 'Piper, you... you're a knockout.

because he stared at me with such a look as made him seem much better-looking even than he likely thought himself, and it is very bad to encourage young men into believing you find them handsome.

But Wilson was an idealist who believed that the force of righteousness would overcome all obstacles. He underestimated the need to flatter, cajole, and seduce.