Flattery Quotes
Sheer flattery got me into the theater. Flattery always works with me, particularly the flattery of women.
Carroll O'Connor
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
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.
Jack Vance
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.
Agnetha Faltskog
The flattery of posterity is not worth much more than contemporary flattery, which is worth nothing.
Jorge Luis Borges
If we did not flatter ourselves, the flattery of others could never harm us.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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
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.
Sarah Fielding
Baloney is flattery laid on so thick it cannot be true, and blarney is flattery so thin we love it.
Fulton J. Sheen
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.
Cheryl James
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.
Kate Chopin
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
Flattery is a kind of bad money, to which our vanity gives us currency.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Everyone likes flattery; and when you come to Royalty you should lay it on with a trowel.
Benjamin Disraeli