Flattery Quotes

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.

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

Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.

The flattery is nice, but awards don't add up to writing quality songs.

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.

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

I can spot empty flattery and know exactly where I stand. In the end it's really only my own approval or disapproval that means anything.

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

A little flattery will support a man through great fatigue.

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

Imitation is the sincerest 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.

Said I was beautiful, did he? He's being paid for treatment, not flattery.

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

Knavery and flattery are blood relations.

Everyone likes flattery; and when you come to Royalty you should lay it on with a trowel.

The best form of flattery is to be admired, imitated or respected. I've always felt proud our fans look up to us or feel we are inspirational.

None are more taken in by flattery than the proud, who wish to be the first and are not.

Listening, not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery.

I trust it will not be giving away professional secrets to say that many readers would be surprised, perhaps shocked, at the questions which some newspaper editors will put to a defenseless woman under the guise of flattery.

Advertising - a judicious mixture of flattery and threats.

Flattery is like chewing gum. Enjoy it but don't swallow it.

Flattery is a kind of bad money, to which our vanity gives us currency.

Immigration is the sincerest form of flattery.

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.

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

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

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.

Imitation is obviously a great form of flattery.

Between flattery and admiration there often flows a river of contempt.