Flattery Love Quotes

#1. 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.

Helen Rowland

#2. Acting is all about likability.

Clive Owen

#3. You will do it because you know that knowledge is beautiful, and because if only a hundred people share your passion, that is enough.

Ben Goldacre

#4. You can receive all the compliments in the world, but that won't do a thing unless you believe it yourself.

Criss Jami

#5. I never paid you a compliment, Rachel, in my life. Successful love may sometimes use the language of flattery, I admit. But hopeless love, dearest, always speaks the truth.

Wilkie Collins

#6. We have lost the old love of work, of work which kept itself company, which was fair weather and music in the heart, which found its reward in the doing, craving neither the flattery of vulgar eyes nor the gold of vulgar men.

John Lancaster Spalding

#7. You will thank me one day for not filling your head with false compliments. Adversity teaches one more than flattery ever will.

Rachel E. Carter

#8. Nothing like a bit of flattery to grease the wheels.

Lindsey Kelk

#9. Among all the diseases of the mind there is not one more epidemical or more pernicious than the love of flattery.

Richard Steele

#10. Aiming at health, restoring health - that is a goal that is both morally important and limited, because it aims at the restoration of normal human functioning, which is an important part of human flourishing.

Michael Sandel

#11. A man that does not love praise is not a full man.

Henry Ward Beecher

#12. for self-love is no more than the soothing of a man's self, which, done to another, is flattery. And

Erasmus

#13. 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.

Honore De Balzac

#14. You think I love flattery (says Dr. Johnson), and so I do; but a little too much always disgusts me: that fellow Richardson, on the contrary, could not be contented to sail quietly down the stream of reputation, without longing to taste the froth from every stroke of the oar.

Samuel Johnson

#15. The heart of a woman is never so full of affection that there does not remain a little corner for flattery and love.

Pierre De Marivaux

#16. Flattery does not encourage the perfect flow of love in the vein of your relationship. Be genuine and speak out what you feel for each other without hiding the painful truth.

Michael Bassey

#17. 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.

Maria Mitchell

#18. What?" she asked.
"You're beautiful."
She rolled her eyes. "Flattery will get you laid."
"I sure hope so.

J. Lynn

#19. Oh, flatter me; for love delights in praises.

William Shakespeare

#20. O Beauty, find thyself in love, not in the flattery of thy mirror.

Rabindranath Tagore

#21. Love of another is merely empty flattery and self-deception for one who cannot accept himself without pretense.

L.E. Modesitt Jr.

#22. How empty are the insincere words of people who, so easily, speak forth "love," "family" and "friendship" without meaning what they say even if their intentions are good albeit mere flattery.

Donna Lynn Hope

#23. Direct, forceful, energetic. Loves power, eats up publicity and flattery ... Can turn on charm at will and knows it.

Joseph Stilwell

#24. Love of flattery, in most men, proceeds from the mean opinion they have of themselves; in women, from the contrary.

Jonathan Swift

#25. It's love that makes the world go round - otherwise it would be flat.

Jay Woodman

#26. A sweet soul will take you further than a sweet tongue.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#27. When one looks truly at the good side of everyone, others come to love him very naturally, and he does not need even a speck of flattery.

Abraham Isaac Kook

#28. I believe that love
not imitation
is the sincerest form of flattery. Your imitator thinks that you can be duplicated; your lover knows you can't.

Marilyn Vos Savant

#29. We love flattery, even though we are not deceived by it, because it shows that we are of importance enough to be courted.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#30. Baloney is flattery laid on so thick it cannot be true, and blarney is flattery so thin we love it.

Fulton J. Sheen

#31. 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.

Criss Jami

#32. Personally, I consider 'Titanic' the most brilliant example of successful counterprogramming; the film actually countered itself by embedding an epic chick flick within a classic disaster movie.

Diablo Cody

#33. Money is the sincerest of all flattery. Women love to be flattered. So do men.

Robert A. Heinlein

#34. The Chinese, taking off his air-helmet, uncoiled his pigtail with a certain emphasis, stripped off his heavy coverings, and revealed a sky-blue silk pyjama suit, embroidered with golden dragons.

Olaf Stapledon