Quotes About Flattery

The belief in the sanctity of one's idiosyncrasy—especially if it be a group idiosyncrasy, and therefore sustained and intensified by mutual flattery—is rapidly converted into a belief in its superiority. More

We should keep silent about those in power; to speak well of them almost implies flattery; to speak ill of them while they are alive is dangerous, and when they are dead is cowardly.

But, perhaps, the flatterer is not often detected; for an honest mind is not apt to suspect, and no one exerts the power of discernment with much vigour when selflove favors the deceit.

What wouldst thou do, old man? Think'st thou that duty shall have dread to speak When power to flattery bows?

Don't tell a woman she's pretty; tell her there's no other woman like her, and all roads will open to you.

No; let the candied tongue lick absurd pomp,And crook the pregnant hinges of the kneeWhere thrift may follow fawning.

But when I tell him he hates flatterers,He says he does, being then most flattered.

Lay not that flattering unction to your soul.

'Twas never merry world Since lowly feigning was called compliment.

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

Remember who commended thy yellow stockings, and wished to see thee ever cross-gartered.

I want that glib and oily artTo speak and purpose not.

There have been many great men that have flattered the people who ne'er loved them.

Poetry and consumption are the most flattering of diseases.

Flattery.... gets its kicks by flirting with insult and ridicule.

Flattery works like a drug.

Like pollen on a honeybee, flattery clings to the things you tell yourself.

If you flatter yourself properly you will be better able to enjoy yourself. Stretch your joy so that others enjoy you too.

A little flattery, like a warm bath and soft towel, will let you get along with yourself, lie down with yourself, and sleep.

I hate careless flattery, the kind that exhausts you in your effort to believe it.

The most delightful of all music, that of your own praises.

Reuther yearned to be near the center of power, and Johnson was masterly at the twin arts of flattery and manipulation, making Reuther feel that he was the president's confidant.

Ass-kissing is the last resort of any anxious person who's in over their head.

They say copying is a form of flattery, I say it's lack of originality.