Flattery Quotations

I know imitation is the highest form of flattery, but stealing one's identity is totally different.

Flattery in courtship is the highest insolence, for whilst it pretends to bestow on you more than you deserve, it is watching an opportunity to take from you what you really have.

Sheer flattery got me into the theater. Flattery always works with me, particularly the flattery of women.

Flatterers look like friends, as wolves like dogs.

One may define flattery as a base companionship which is most advantageous to the flatterer.

To ask advice is in nine cases out of ten to tout for flattery.

Advertising - a judicious mixture of flattery and threats.

I have always found it interesting... that there are people who regard copyright infringement as a form of flattery.

The love of one's own sex is precious, for it is neither provoked by vanity nor retained by flattery; it is genuine and sincere.

Every flatterer lives at the expense of him who listens to him.

Whenever somebody folds, say, 'Good laydown.' It encourages them to fold on a later hand because it makes them feel like you had the best hand even if you were bluffing. It's an odd form of flattery that seems to work at the poker table.

The aim of flattery is to soothe and encourage us by assuring us of the truth of an opinion we have already formed about ourselves.

Flattery and insults raise the same question: What do you want?

Flattery is all right so long as you don't inhale.

Imitation is obviously a great form of flattery.

The flattery of posterity is not worth much more than contemporary flattery, which is worth nothing.

Nothing is so great an example of bad manners as flattery. If you flatter all the company, you please none; If you flatter only one or two, you offend the rest.

From every ancient source, we have testimony to Cleopatra's irresistible charm, as Plutarch has it, to her ability to speak many languages including, as he puts it, the language of flattery and essentially, to be able to turn people to her will - really a great political genius, in that respect.

Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.

Nothing says, 'I pay attention to detail!' like footwear flattery from a boy.

He who says he hates every kind of flattery, and says it in earnest, certainly does not yet know every kind of flattery.

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.

If we did not flatter ourselves, the flattery of others could never harm us.

I will praise any man that will praise me.

He that loves to be flattered is worthy o' the flatterer.

Invitation is the sincerest flattery.

flattery would be worse than vain; there is no consolation in flattery.

I like rudeness a great deal better than flattery.

To be most effective, flattery is always best applied with a trowel.

Flattery'll get you anywhere.

Flattery is a foolish suicide; she destroys herself with her own hands.

Complimenting someone in an exaggerated way is known as flattery, and flattery will generally get you anything you want...

If you mean to profit, learn to praise.

They say one of the greatest forms of flattery is for your son to follow in your footsteps. And so I enjoy that greatest form of flattery, without a doubt.

We swallow with one gulp the lie that flatters us, and drink drop by drop the truth which is bitter to us.

Flattery is a lie covered in a bed of flowery words.

Of all wild beasts preserve me from a tyrant; and of all tame a flatterer.

Flattery, if judiciously administered, is always acceptable, however much we may despise the flatterer.

Every woman is infallibly to be gained by every sort of flattery, and every man by one sort or other.

Flattery, though a base coin, is the necessary pocket money at court; where, by custom and consent, it has obtained such a currency that it is no longer a fraudulent, but a legal payment.

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

Of course you like him; everyone enjoys flattery.

My passport photo is one of the most remarkable photographs I have ever seen- no retouching, no shadows, no flattery-just stark me.

Flattery is never so agreeable as to our blind side; commend a fool for his wit, or a knave for his honesty, and they will receive you into their bosoms

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

Flattery is all right if you don't inhale

Flattery - If you want to get to the top, prepare to kiss a lot of the bottom.

Tell me a private school that won?t take somebody outside their parish. Jealousy is the greatest form of flattery and that?s about it. Maybe this is being paranoid, but we?re a small town, and what irritates me is if (Mayo and Walker) went to a bigger, private school, we?d be seeing headlines about how great this is.

Baloney is the unvarnished lie laid on so thick you hate it. Blarney is flattery laid on so thin you love it.

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 as much love for her

This flattery has been rather slow in coming. I think all of sudden late in life now I'm getting some credit for what I've done. Which is gratifying, but it's kind of a little late.

It?s like, 'Surely this is going to be the last one? This will be the last one.' And they just keep putting them out. But I guess in some strange, twisted way it?s a form of flattery in that people are interested in what?s going on with us. But it is frustrating.

The voice of flattery affects us after it has ceased, just as after a concert men find some agreeable air ringing in their ears to the exclusion of all serious business

Can storied urn or animated bust / Back to its mansion call the fleeting breath? / Can honour's voice provoke the silent dust, / Or flattery soothe the dull cold ear of death?

No adulation; 'tis the death of virtue; Who flatters, is of all mankind the lowest Save he who courts the flattery.

I have a car that I call Flattery because it gets me nowhere.

It is easy to flatter; it is harder to praise.

It is easier and handier for men to flattery than to praise.

Of all sorts of flattery, that which comes from a solemn character and stands before a sermon is the worst-complexioned. Such commendation is a satire upon the author, makes the text look mercenary, and disables the discourse from doing service.

Praise is flattery, artful, hidden, delicate, which gratifies differently him who praises and him who is praised. The one takes it as the reward of merit, the other bestows it to show his impartiality and knowledge.

We sometimes imagine we hate flattery, but we only hate the way we are flattered.

Gallantry of mind consists in saying flattering things in an agreeable manner.

Flattery is a base coin which is current only through our vanity.

The gallantry of the mind consists in agreeable flattery.

If we never flattered ourselves we should have but scant pleasure.

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

True love is mixed up with birdlike squabbles, in which the disputants wound each other to the quick; but a quarrel without animus is, on the contrary, apiece of flattery to the dupe's conceit.

Immigration is the sincerest form of flattery.

Because nothing says flattery like a gun to the head.

The flatterer easily insinuates himself into the closet, while honest merit stands shivering in the hall or antechamber.

Let flattery, the handmaid of the vices, be far removed (from friendship). [Lat., Assentatio, vitiorum adjutrix, procul amoveatur.]

Let flattery, the handmaid of the vices, be far removed .

Now flattery can never do good; twice cursed in the giving and the receiving, it ought to be.

Imitation is the surest form of flattery and failure. I am not interested with your talk about my ideas. I am more interested in your applying them to your life. If you do not, then you are essentially not in accord with your own mind.

What valor cannot win, flattery may.

Flattery was formerly a vice; it has now become the fashion.

Alas! the praise given to the ear Ne'er was nor ne'er can be sincere.

I see this evident, that we willingly accord to piety only the services that flatter our passions.

There is not one of us that would not be worse than kings, if so continually corrupted as they are with a sort of vermin called flatterers.

Flattery has to overcome my mistrust, and it does.

Flatter me, but delicately, please, for I am fastidious.

Your flattery is as full of contempt as your insults were.

Flattery won't hurt you if you don't swallow it.

Some folks pay a compliment like they went down in their pocket for it.

Imitation is flattery, and The Hills Have Eyes is a classic.

We would seldom be deceived by flattery, did our own conceit not promote the delusion.

Were there no fools, there would be no flatterers.

Flattery succeeds best on minds previously occupied by conceit.

The man who lays his hand upon a woman, Save in the way of kindness, is a wretch Whom 'twere gross flattery to name a coward

The habitude of pleasing by flattery makes a language soft; the fear of offending by truth makes it circuitous and conventional

Flattery will get you everywhere," Sam says, "Except, apparently, off a roof.

Flattery is like wine, which exhilarates a man for a moment, but usually ends by going to his head and making him act foolishly.

Imitation is always insult--not flattery.

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

Women have, in general, but ne object, which is their beauty; upon which, scarce any flattery is too gross for them to swallow.

The public wants work which flatters its illusions.

Whitney: You black-hearted, treacherous, conniving scoundrel. Clayton: Your flattery warms my heart

Perfumed and gallant words make our ears belch.

There is no food more satiating than milk and honey; and just as such foods produce disgust for the palate, so perfumed and gallant words make our ears belch.

I don't think imitation is the highest form of flattery, I think it's annoying.