Top 100 Quotes About Flattery
#1. There's two things that you don't listen to: flattery, which can't help you, and abuse, which can't hurt you. You have to look at the facts.
Jim Tressel
#3. Like pollen on a honeybee, flattery clings to the things you tell yourself.
Willis Regier
#4. To be most effective, flattery is always best applied with a trowel.
Alan Bradley
#6. People who wish to numb our caution in dealing with them by means of flattery are employing a dangerous expedient, like a sleeping draught, which, if it does not put us to sleep, keeps us all the more awake.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#7. Flattery is saying something nice in order to help yourself. Encouragement is saying something true in order help someone else.
Kevin DeYoung
#8. Advertising - A judicious mixture of flattery and threats.
Stephen Leacock
#9. Flattery was formerly a vice; it has now become the fashion.
Publilius Syrus
#10. Hypocrisy can plunge the mind of a man into a dark abyss, when he believes his own self-flattery instead of God's verdict.
John Calvin
#11. Compliments and flattery oftenest excite my contempt by the pretension they imply; for who is he that assumes to flatter me? To compliment often implies an assumption of superiority in the complimenter. It is, in fact, a subtle detraction.
Henry David Thoreau
#12. Flattery is no more than what raises in a man's mind an idea of a preference which he has not.
Edmund Burke
#14. The most subtle flattery that a woman can receive is by actions, not by words.
Suzanne Curchod
#15. The ambitious are forever followed by adulation for they receive the most pleasure from flattery.
Oliver Goldsmith
#16. Adults are starved for a kind word. When you understand the power of honest praise (as opposed to bullshitting, flattery, and sucking up), you realize that withholding it borders on immoral. If you see something that impresses you, a decent respect to humanity insists you voice your praise.
Scott Adams
#17. My cut is blunt and futuristic, and Nicki Minaj started wearing that bob on her head after she came to my show, so at the end of the day, I know what I do, and I know what I possess, and I know who I am. I'm a trendsetter. The biggest form of flattery is imitation, so I'm flattered.
Lil' Mama
#18. Flattery pleases very generally. In the first place, the flatterer may think what he says to be true; but, in the second place, whether he thinks so or not, he certainly thinks those whom he flatters of consequence enough to be flattered.
Samuel Johnson
#19. And the question of Wester religion," Flattery said, "is: What lies beyond death? But the question of the Zen master is: What lies beyond waking?
Frank Herbert
#20. Imitation is the greatest form of flattery, but worship is the greatest form of adoration.
Jayce O'Neal
#21. Flattery is counterfeit, and like counterfeit money, it will eventually get you into trouble if you pass it to someone else.
Dale Carnegie
#22. ...The "democratic spirit"... [or the campaign to make everyone the same] leads to a nation without great men, a nation mainly of subliterates, full of the cocksureness which flattery breeds on ignorance, and quick to snarl or whimper at the first hint of criticism.
C.S. Lewis
#23. At its best, flattery is truth well dressed, and it is best dressed with fine see-through fabrics. Honest flattery can caress a lover, cover up a gaffe, and muffle aggression.
Willis Regier
#24. It flattered her, where she was most susceptible of flattery, to think how, wound about in their hearts, however long they lived she would be woven ...
Virginia Woolf
#26. Erasmus says that you should praise a ruler even for qualities he does not have. For the flattery gives him to think. And the qualities he presently lacks, he might go to work on them.
Hilary Mantel
#27. To tell the truth, my dear count, I must own that of all nauseating human emanations, literature is one of those which disgust me most. I can see nothing in it but compromise and flattery. And I go so far as to doubt whether it can be anything else.
Andre Gide
#28. 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.
Bill Vaughan
#29. To thee, fair Freedom! I retire From flattery, cards, and dice, and din: Nor art thou found in mansions higher Than the low cot, or humble inn.
William Shenstone
#30. Mine eyes Were not in fault, for she was beautiful; Mine ears, that heard her flattery; nor my heart, That thought her like her seeming. It had been vicious To have mistrusted her.
William Shakespeare
#31. If men of eminence are exposed to censure on one hand, they are as much liable to flattery on the other. If they receive reproaches which are not due to them, they likewise receive praises which they do not deserve.
Joseph Addison
#32. The day before the disaster, Iris Carr had her first premonition of danger. She was used to the protection of a crowd, whom - with unconscious flattery - she called 'her friends'. An attractive orphan of independent means, she had been surrounded always with clumps of people.
Ethel Lina White
#35. No adulation; 'tis the death of virtue; Who flatters, is of all mankind the lowest Save he who courts the flattery.
Hannah More
#36. It is necessary to the success of flattery, that it be accommodated to particular circumstances or characters, and enter the heart on that side where the passions are ready to receive it.
Samuel Johnson
#37. Complimenting someone in an exaggerated way is known as flattery, and flattery will generally get you anything you want ...
Lemony Snicket
#38. Mountains of gold would not seduce some men, yet flattery would break them down.
Henry Ward Beecher
#39. All this faux flattery. It's not enough to make me forget he's a dick. Admittedly, though, he's sort of a charismatic dick.
Kendare Blake
#40. 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.
Jeremy Collier
#41. Women have, in general, but ne object, which is their beauty; upon which, scarce any flattery is too gross for them to swallow.
Lord Chesterfield
#42. Say not unto thyself, Behold, truth breedeth hatred, and I will avoid it; dissimulation raiseth friends, and I will follow it. Are not the enemies made by truth, better than the friends obtained by flattery?
Akhenaton
#43. Imitation is not just the sincerest form of flattery - it's the sincerest form of learning.
George Bernard Shaw
#44. Fucking flattery, success, money.
I just sit back and suck my thumb.
Ikkyu
#45. You will get such flattery as you deserve, and my foot in your arse the rest of the time.
Joe Abercrombie
#46. Nothing is harder to resist than a bit of flattery.
Arnold Lobel
#47. Flattery has to overcome my mistrust, and it does.
Mason Cooley
#48. Our credulity is greatest concerning the things we know least about. And since we know least about ourselves, we are ready to believe all that is said about us. Hence the mysterious power of both flattery and calumny.
Eric Hoffer
#49. The difference between appreciation and flattery? That is simple. One is sincere and the other insincere. One comes from the heart out; the other from the teeth out. One is unselfish; the other selfish. One is universally admired; the other universally condemned.
Dale Carnegie
#50. Rapping can be repetition sometimes. Sometimes you gotta highlight your words in a certain kind of way. So I always was a fan of sing-rapping. It was always funny to me a little bit, and I think that being funny and being able to laugh, even at yourself, is a form of flattery.
ASAP Ferg
#51. 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
#52. It was napoleon who once observed how easy it is to win men over through flattery simply by bequeathing a title to them or pinning a metal or token on their chest.
Texe Marrs
#53. If you want to make an ordinary man happy, or think that he is happy, give him money, power, flattery, gifts, honours. If you want to make a wise man happy - improve yourself!
Idries Shah
#54. Flattery and insults raise the same question: what do you want?
Mason Cooley
#55. Flattery is like friendship in show, but not in fruit.
Socrates
#56. Immigration is the sincerest form of flattery.
Jack Paar
#57. 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
#58. 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
Ken Wilber
#59. He who says he hates every kind of flattery, and says it in earnest, certainly does not yet know every kind of flattery.
Georg C. Lichtenberg
#60. Some indeed there are who profess to despise all flattery, but even these are nevertheless to be flattered, by being told that they do despise it.
Charles Caleb Colton
#62. Not bad," he decided.
"I'm overwhelmed by your flattery.
Nora Roberts
#63. 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
#64. The habit of pleasing by flattery makes a language soft; the fear of offending by truth makes it circuitous and conventional.
Walter Savage Landor
#66. Flattery is an ensnaring quality, and leaves a very dangerous impression. It swells a man's imagination, entertains his vanity, and drives him to a doting upon his own person.
Jeremy Collier
#67. There is nothing in the world more difficult than candor, and nothing easier than flattery.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#68. Nothing like a bit of flattery to grease the wheels.
Lindsey Kelk
#70. To experience commitment as the loss of options, a type of death, the death of childhood's limitless possibility, of the flattery of choice without duress-this will happen, mark me. Childhood's end.
David Foster Wallace
#71. None are more taken in by flattery than the proud, who wish to be the first and are not.
Baruch Spinoza
#72. Nothing is so great an instance of ill-manners as flattery.
Jonathan Swift
#73. Many owe their greatness to their enemies. Flattery is fiercer than hatred, for hatred corrects the faults flattery had disguised.
Baltasar Gracian
#75. Many a maid have I won by a quarrel, when flattery was in no wise helpful; but take heed that thou art in the wrong, so that thou mayest acknowledge thine error.
Gelett Burgess
#77. Adroit observers will find that some who affect to dislike flattery, may yet be flattered indirectly, by a well seasoned abuse and ridicule of their rivals.
Charles Caleb Colton
#78. Among all the diseases of the mind there is not one more epidemical or more pernicious than the love of flattery.
Richard Steele
#79. Flattery is like wine, which exhilarates a man for a moment, but usually ends by going to his head and making him act foolishly.
Helen Rowland
#80. When you understand the power of honest praise (as opposed to bullshitting, flattery, and sucking up), you realize that withholding it borders on immoral.
Scott Adams
#81. A little flattery makes people feel good about themselves. When you notice someone looking great, give them a compliment.
Ken Blanchard
#82. The mutual preference of frankness over flattery is what leads to iron sharpening iron.
Torry Martin
#84. Flattery is a lie covered in a bed of flowery words.
Deborah Smith
#85. Nature has hardly formed a woman ugly enough to be insensible to flattery upon her person; if her face is so shocking that she must in some degree be conscious of it, her figure and her air, she trusts, make ample amends for it.
Bill Vaughan
#86. Incredible that the best route to winning friends
is not necessarily kindness or flattery,
but letting them know you won't
tolerate their bullshit.
Sarah Miller
#88. In Hollywood, imitation is the most profitable form of flattery. That is the only plausible explanation ...
Desson Thomson
#89. 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.
E.L. Konigsburg
#91. Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver, and adulation is not of more service to the people than to kings.
Edmund Burke
#92. Flattery is useful when dealing with youngsters.
Isaac Asimov
#93. The god-who-serves-ME requires flattery, not worship.
Tom Wells
#94. 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.
Jean De La Bruyere
#95. If I'd had the strength, I would have leaped on him and ripped him apart. "You're a disgusting bastard."
"I'll have to ask Tamlin if this kind of flattery won his heart.
Sarah J. Maas
#96. When we seek appreciation from others, we get not appreciation, but flattery.
Sri Chinmoy
#97. Flattery and deceit are the darlings of great men, and so with these men spread the butter on thick, if you want to get something out of them, otherwise you'll come home to me with a full belly and an empty purse.
Pietro Aretino
#98. Sarcasm is the lowest form of humor but the highest form of flattery.
Benjamin Franklin
#99. The most dangerous of all flattery is the inferiority of those about us.
Sophie Swetchine
#100. 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
