Flattery Quotes
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The best way to convince a fool that he is wrong is to let him have his own way. (Quote by - Josh Billings)
Do not offer a compliment and ask a favor at the same time. A compliment that is charged for is not valuable. (Quote by - Mark Twain)
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. (Quote by - Seneca)
Young men think old men are fools, but old men know young men are fools. (Quote by - George Chapman)
Here comes Glib-tongue: who can out-flatter a Dedication; and lie, like ten Epitaphs. (Quote by - Benjamin Franklin)
O that men's ears should be To counsel deaf but not to flattery! (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
Flattery is like chewing gum. Enjoy it but don't swallow it. (Quote by - Hank Ketcham)
Yet each man kills the thing he loves, By each let this be heard, Some do it with a bitter look, Some with a flattering word. The coward does it with a kiss, The brave man with a sword!. (Quote by - Oscar Wilde)
It is easy to flatter; it is harder to praise. (Quote by - Jean Paul Richter)
A fool flatters himself, a wise man flatters the fool. (Quote by - Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton)
Flattery is all right so long as you don't inhale. (Quote by - Adlai E. Stevenson)
The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can ever end. (Quote by - Benjamin Disraeli)
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. (Quote by - Philip Dormer Stanhope)
It is happy for you that you possess the talent of flattering with delicacy. May I ask whether these pleasing attentions proceed from the impulse of the moment, or are the result of previous study? (Quote by - Jane Austen)
Some natures are too good to be spoiled by praise. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
The silence that accepts merit as the most natural thing in the world is the highest applause. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
Flattery is undeserved praise, and is usually general in nature. For example, when Grandma comes over and says, "Son, you are so handsome and smart, too," that is flattery. Praise, on the other hand, is specific and well-deserved positive reinforcement. "Mark, I really like the way you kept your room clean all day today." Respect and praise support children's growing sense of themselves and encourages positive behaviors. (Quote by - Nancy Golden)
Be advised that all flatterers live at the expense of those who listen to them. (Quote by - Jean de la Fontaine)
If your heart acquires strength, you will be able to remove blemishes from others without thinking evil of them. (Quote by - Mohandas K. Gandhi)
Flattery is a counterfeit money which, but for vanity, would have no circulation. (Quote by - François de la Rochefoucauld)
Avoid flatterers, for they are thieves in disguise. (Quote by - William Penn)
We created this segment, .. Flattery is very nice -- all these other people have come after us. We said let's see what they are doing and see if we can adapt some things. (Quote by - Allen Bernstein)
Madam, before you flatter a man so grossly to his face, you should consider whether your flattery is worth having. (Quote by - Samuel Johnson)
Some fellows pay a compliment like they expected a receipt. (Quote by - Kin Hubbard)
Leave this hypocritical prating about the masses. Masses are rude, lame, unmade, pernicious in their demands and influence, and need not to be flattered, but to be schooled. I wish not to concede anything to them, but to tame, drill, divide, and break them up, and draw individuals out of them. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing. (Quote by - Elbert Hubbard)
To make a man perfectly happy tell him he works too hard, that he spends too much money, that he is ''misunderstood'' or that he is ''different''; none of this is necessarily complimentary, but it will flatter him infinitely more that merely telling him that he is brilliant, or noble, or wise, or good. (Quote by - Helen Rowland)
Let us be thankful for the fools; but for them the rest of us could not succeed. (Quote by - Mark Twain)
He does me double wrongThat wounds me with the flatteries of his tongue. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
What the fool does in the end, the wise man does in the beginning. (Quote by - Proverb)
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. (Quote by - Philip Dormer Stanhope)
CECILY. When I see a spade I call it a spade./ GWENDOLEN. I am glad to say I have never seen a spade. It is obvious that our social spheres have been widely different. (Quote by - Oscar Wilde)
When Fortune flatters, she does it to betray. (Quote by - Syrus)
Gallantry of mind consists in saying flattering things in an agreeable manner. (Quote by - Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld)
Few human beings are proof against the implied flattery of rapt attention. (Quote by - Jack Woodford)
What really flatters a man is that you think him worth flattering. (Quote by - George Bernard Shaw)
The meanest, most contemptible kind of praise is that which first speaks well of a man, and then qualifies it with a 'but'. (Quote by - Henry Ward Beecher)
O, that men's ears should be To counsel deaf, but not to flattery!(Quote by - William Shakespeare)
Knavery and flattery are blood relations. (Quote by - Abraham Lincoln)
'Tis an old maxim in the schools, That flattery's the food of fools; Yet now and then your men of wit Will condescend to take a bit. (Quote by - Jonathan Swift)
Flattery was formerly a vice; it has now become the fashion. (Quote by - Syrus)
The skilful class of flatterers praise the discourse of an ignorant friend and the face of a deformed one. (Quote by - Juvenal)
A man that flattereth his neighbor spreadeth a net for his feet. (Quote by - Bible)
He who praises everybody praises nobody. (Quote by - D. Samuel Johnson)
Most people are not really conceited, but feel a certain amount of inferiority and tend to get a little discouraged with themselves, therefore encouragement is a very important thing! I do it all the time! I praise everybody for everything they do that I see is good. (Quote by - David Brandt Berg)
I can live for two months on a good compliment. (Quote by - Mark Twain)
What signifies protesting so against flattery! when a person speaks well of one, it must either be true or false, you know; if true, let us rejoice in his good opinion; if he lies, it is a proof at least that he loves more to please me, than to sit s. (Quote by - Samuel Johnson)
Advertising - a judicious mixture of flattery and threats. (Quote by - Northrop Frye)
The same man cannot be both Friend and Flatterer. (Quote by - Benjamin Franklin)
Men are not flattered by being shown that there has been a difference of purpose between the Almighty and them. (Quote by - Abraham Lincoln)
Where Young must torture his invention To flatter knaves, or lose his pension. (Quote by - Jonathan Swift)
Nothing flatters a man as much as the happiness of his wife; he is always proud of himself as the source of it. (Quote by - Samuel Johnson)
I once had a rose named after me and I was very flattered. But I was not pleased to read the description in the catalogue: no good in a bed, but fine up against a wall. (Quote by - Eleanor Roosevelt)
It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled, or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena; whose face is marred by the dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again...who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions and spends himself in a worthy course; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who, at worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly; so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat. (Quote by - Theodore Roosevelt)
When I was praised I lost my time, for instantly I turned around to look at the work I had thought slightly of, and that day I made nothing new. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
The advantage of doing one's praising to oneself is that one can lay it on so thick and exactly in the right places. (Quote by - Samuel Butler)
Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfils the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things. (Quote by - Winston Churchill)
Take no repulse, whatever she doth say; For 'get you gone,' she doth not mean 'away.' Flatter and praise, commend, extol their graces; Though ne'er so black, say they have angels' faces. That man that hath a tongue, I say is no man, If with his tongue he cannot win a woman. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
No adulation; 'tis the death of virtue; Who flatters, is of all mankind the lowest Save he who courts the flattery. (Quote by - Hannah More)
Flattery makes friends and truth makes enemies. (Quote by - Spanish Proverb)
Self-love is the greatest of all flatterers. (Quote by - Francois de La Rochefoucauld)
It is simpler and easier to flatter men than to praise them. (Quote by - Jean Paul Richter)
To ask advice is in nine cases out of ten to tout for flattery. (Quote by - John Churton Collins)
Never believe anything bad about anybody unless you positively know it to be true; never tell even that unless you feel that it is absolutely necessary—and that God is listening while you tell it. (Quote by - William Penn)
Flattery is like friendship in show, but not in fruit. (Quote by - Socrates)
It has been well said that "the arch-flatterer with whom all the petty flatterers have intelligence is a man's self." (Quote by - )
It's pleasant to hear these nice words while I'm still alive. I'd rather have the taffy than the epitaphy. (Quote by - Chauncey Depew)
Women are never disarmed by compliments. Men always are. That is the difference between the sexes. (Quote by - Oscar Wilde)
The reason that adulation is not displeasing is that, though untrue, it shows one to be of consequence enough, in one way or other, to induce people to lie. (Quote by - Lord Byron )
Flattery is all right if you don't inhale. (Quote by - Adlai E. Stevenson)
Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. This is my idea, and when I get to Congress, I'd be very happy to cooperate with (Allard) on this. (Quote by - Ed Perlmutter)
Among the smaller duties in life, I hardly know any one more important than that of not praising when praise is not due. (Quote by - Sydney Smith)
Commend a fool for his wit, or a rogue for his honesty and he will receive you into his favor. (Quote by - Henry Fielding)
An acquaintance that begins with a compliment is sure to develop into a real friendship. (Quote by - Oscar Wilde)
When your friends begin to flatter you on how young you look, it's a sure sign you're getting old. (Quote by - Mark Twain)
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. (Quote by - Agnetha Faltskog)
Grant me prudently to avoid him that flatters me, and to endure patiently him that contradicts me. (Quote by - Thomas `a Kempis)
Flattery is praise insincerely given for an interested purpose. (Quote by - Henry Ward Beecher)
Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver. (Quote by - Edmund Burke)
Every woman is infallibly to be gained by every sort of flattery, and every man by one sort or other. (Quote by - Earl Of Chesterfield)
My passport photo is one of the most remarkable photographs I have ever seen - no retouching, no shadows, no flattery - just stark me. (Quote by - Anne Morrow Lindbergh)
Let us now praise famous men, and our fathers that begat us. (Quote by - Bible)
He who says he hates every kind of flattery, and says it in earnest, certainly does not yet know every kind of flattery. (Quote by - Georg C. Lichtenberg )
Always let your flattery be seen through for what really flatters a man is that you think him worth flattering. (Quote by - George Bernard Shaw)
Listening, not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery. (Quote by - Dr. Joyce Brothers)
If we did not flatter ourselves the flattery from others would not harm us. (Quote by - Proverb)
Flattery will get you everywhere. (Quote by - Mae West)
Flattery is telling the other person precisely what he thinks about himself . (Quote by - Dale Carnegie)
Once in a century a man may be ruined or made insufferable by praise. But surely once a minute something generous dies for want of it. (Quote by - John Masefield)
The praise of a fool is incense to the wisest of us . (Quote by - Benjamin Disraeli)
We sometimes imagine we hate flattery, but we only hate the way we are flattered. (Quote by - Francois de la Rochefoucauld)
But what is the good of friendship if one cannot say exactly what one means? Anybody can say charming things and try to please and to flatter, but a true friend always says unpleasant things, and does not mind giving pain. Indeed, if he is a really true friend he prefers it, for he knows that then he is doing good. (Quote by - Oscar Wilde)
Praise to the undeserving is severe satire. (Quote by - Benjamin Franklin)
No matter what other nations may say about the United States, immigration is still the sincerest form of flattery. (Quote by - Clayton Cramer)
Just praise is only a debt, but flattery is a present. (Quote by - Samuel Johnson)
By God, I cannot flatter, I do defy The tongues of soothers! but a braver place In my heart's love hath no man than yourself. Nay, task me to my word; approve me, lord. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
When the flatterer pipes, then the devil dances. (Quote by - Thomas Fuller)
None are more taken in by flattery than the proud, who wish to be the first and are not. (Quote by - Benedict Spinoza)
They do not abuse the king that flatter him. For flattery is the bellows blows up sin; The thing the which is flattered, but a spark To which that blast gives heat and stronger glowing; Whereas reproof, obedient and in order, Fits kings as they are men, for they may err. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
Copying is the greatest form of flattery, I guess. I am actually a little surprised that Vincent Lo didn't try and make a deal to be on The Apprentice,. (Quote by - Donald Trump)
He that loves to be flattered is worthy of the flatterer. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
An ingenuous mind feels in unmerited praise the bitterest reproof. (Quote by - Walter Savage Landor)
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. (Quote by - Jonathan Swift)
Everyone likes flattery, and when you come to Royalty, you should lay it on with a thick trowel. (Quote by - Benjamin Disraeli)
Nobody can describe a fool to the life, without much patient self-inspection. (Quote by - Frank Moore Colby)
Every flatterer lives at the expense of him who listens to him. (Quote by - Jean de La Fontaine)
Flattery is a form of hatred. (Quote by - Bible)
A fool can no more see his own folly than he can see his ears. (Quote by - William Makepeace Thackeray)
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. (Quote by - Eric Hoffer)
We sometimes think that we hate flattery, but we only hate the manner in which it is done. (Quote by - Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld)
For there is no faithfulness in their mouth; their inward part is very wickedness; their throat is an open sepulchre; they flatter with their tongue. (Quote by - Bible)
He flattered himself on being a man without any prejudices; and this pretension itself is a very great prejudice. (Quote by - Anatole France)
We can often do more for other men by trying to correct our own faults than by trying to correct theirs. (Quote by - Francois Fenelon)
Flattery is from the teeth out. Sincere appreciation is from the heart out. (Quote by - Dale Carnegie)
A rich man's joke is always funny. (Quote by - Thomas Edward Brown)
The habitude of pleasing by flattery makes a language soft; the fear of offending by truth makes it circuitous and conventional. (Quote by - Walter Savage Landor)
It is better to fall among crows than flatterers; for those devour only the dead--these the living. (Quote by - Antisthenes)
There is no other way of guarding oneself against flattery than by letting men understand that they will not offend you by speaking the truth; but when everyone can tell you the truth, you lose their respect. (Quote by - Niccolo Machiavelli)
Between flattery and admiration there often flows a river of contempt. (Quote by - Minna Antrim)
A compliment is a gift, not to be thrown away carelessly unless you want to hurt the giver. (Quote by - Eleanor Hamilton)
The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticisms. (Quote by - Norman Vincent Peale)
They who delight to be flattered, pay for their folly by a late repentance. (Quote by - Phaedrus)
The ambitious are forever followed by adulation for they receive the most pleasure from flattery. (Quote by - Oliver Goldsmith)
It is easier and handier for men to flatter than to praise. (Quote by - Jean Paul Richter)
By flatterers besieged And so obliging that he ne'er obliged. (Quote by - Alexander Pope)
We love flattery, even though we are not deceived by it, because it shows that we are of importance enough to be courted. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
The heights of popularity and patriotism are still the beaten road to power and tyranny; flattery to treachery; standing armies to arbitrary government; and the glory of God to the temporal interest of the clergy. (Quote by - David Hume)
Immigration is the sincerest form of flattery. (Quote by - Jack Paar)
Young children are unlikely to have their self-esteem strengthened from excessive praise or flattery. On the contrary, it may raise some doubts in children; many children can see through flattery and may even dismiss an adult who heaps on praise as a poor source of support (Quote by - one who is not very believable. )
It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are, the more gentle and quiet we become towards the defects of others. (Quote by - Joseph Addison)
Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt, not swallowed. (Quote by - Josh Billings)
I will praise any man that will praise me. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
Correction does much, but encouragement does more. (Quote by - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)
Note how good you feel after you have encouraged someone else. No other argument is necessary to suggest that never miss the opportunity to give encouragement. (Quote by - George Adams)
Flattery is a kind of bad money, to which our vanity gives us currency. (Quote by - François de la Rochefoucauld )
Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being. (Quote by - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)
Music, even in situations of the greatest horror, should never be painful to the ear but should flatter and charm it, and thereby always remain music. (Quote by - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart)
He that is too desirous to be loved will soon learn to flatter, and, when he has exhausted all the variations of honest praise, and can delight no longer in the civility of truth, he will invent new topics of panegyric, and break out into raptures at virtues and beauties conferred by himself. (Quote by - Samuel Johnston)
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. (Quote by - Dan Brooks)
The secret to giving advice is after it is given, to be perfectly indifferent to whether it is taken or not, and never persist in trying to set people right. (Quote by - Hannah Whitall Smith)
Their throat is an open sepulchre; they flatter with their tongue. (Quote by - Bible)
We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter. (Quote by - Denis Diderot)
Flattery must be pretty thick before anybody objects to it. (Quote by - William Feather)
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. (Quote by - Jean de la Bruyere)
I would rather hear the pleased laugh of a child over some feature of my exhibition than receive as I did the flattering compliments of the Prince of Wales. (Quote by - P. T. Phineas Taylor Barnum)
Flattery is the worst and falsest way of showing our esteem. (Quote by - Jonathan Swift)
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. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
Flatter me, and I may not believe you. Criticize me, and I may not like you. Ignore me, and I may not forgive you. Encourage me, and I will not forget you. Love me and I may be forced to love you. (Quote by - William Arthur Ward)
Republics are created by the virtue, public spirit, and intelligence of the citizens. They fall, when the wise are banished from the public councils, because they dare to be honest, and the profligate are rewarded, because they flatter the people in order to betray them. (Quote by - Joseph Story)
There is a lot to say in her favor, but the other is more interesting. (Quote by - Mark Twain)
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. (Quote by - Dennis Franchione)
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. (Quote by - Dame Edith Sitwell)
Some praise at morning what they blame at night. (Quote by - Alexander Pope)
Pay attention to your enemies, for they are the first to discover your mistakes. (Quote by - Antisthenes)
If he be so resolved, I can o'ersway him; for he loves to hear That unicorns may be betrayed with trees And bears with glasses, elephants with holes, Lions with toils, and men with flatterers, He says he does, being then most flattered. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
Tis an old maxim in the schools, That flattery's the food of fools Yet now and then your men of wit Will condescend to take a bit. (Quote by - Jonathan Swift)
Let flattery, the handmaid of the vices, be far removed. (Quote by - Cicero)
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 . (Quote by - Henry Fielding)
Imitation is the highest form of flattery, but clones kind of get it wrong because we are promoting individuality and being proud of being yourself. (Quote by - Brian Molko)
Imitation is the most serious form of flattery. (Quote by - Proverb)
He that speaketh flattery to his friends, even the eyes of his children shall fail. (Quote by - Bible)
He who gladly does without the praise of the crowd will not miss the opportunity of becoming his own fan. (Quote by - Karl Kraus)
Blame-all and Praise-all are two blockheads. (Quote by - Benjamin Franklin)
Approve not of him who commends all you say. (Quote by - Benjamin Franklin)
Pointed criticism, if accurate, often gives the artist an inner sense of relief. The criticism that damages is that which disparages, dismisses, ridicules, or condemns. (Quote by - William Ernest Henley)
I believe that one becomes stronger emotionally by taking life less personally. If your employer criticizes your report, don't take it personally. Instead, find out what's needed and fix it. If your girlfriend laughs at your tie, don't take it personally. Find another tie or find another girlfriend. (Quote by - Marilyn vos Savant)
Flattery - If you want to get to the top, prepare to kiss a lot of the bottom. (Quote by - Larry Kersten)
Gossip is what you say about the objects of flattery when they aren't present. (Quote by - P. J. O'Rourke)
Don't say it was "delightful"; make us say "delightful" when we've read the description. You see, all those words (horrifying, wonderful, hideous, exquisite) are only like saying to your readers "Please will you do the job for me.". (Quote by - C.S. Lewis)
We swallow with one gulp the lie that flatters us, and drink drop by drop the truth which is bitter to us. (Quote by - Denis Diderot)
In lapidary inscriptions a man is not upon oath. (Quote by - Samuel Johnson)
One may define flattery as a base companionship which is most advantageous to the flatterer. (Quote by - Theophrastus)
You can't let praise or criticism get to you. It's a weakness to get caught up in either one. (Quote by - John Wooden)
The aim of the liar is simply to charm, to delight, to give pleasure. He is the very basis of civilized society. (Quote by - Oscar Wilde)
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. (Quote by - William Shenstone)
If any man flatters me, I'll flatter him again; tho' he were my best Friend. (Quote by - Benjamin Franklin)
Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones. (Quote by - Charles Caleb Colton)
The flattery of posterity is not worth much more than contemporary flattery, which is worth nothing. (Quote by - Jorge Luis Borges)
To be a man's own fool is bad enough; but the vain man is everybody's. (Quote by - William Penn)
Let those flatter who fear; it is not an American art . (Quote by - Thomas Jefferson)
Women who are either indisputably beautiful, or indisputably ugly, are best flattered upon the score of their understandings; but those who are in a state of mediocrity are best flattered upon their beauty, or at least their graces: for every woman who is not absolutely ugly, thinks herself handsome. (Quote by - Lord Chesterfield )
Attempts at imitation are the sincerest form of flattery, .. There's many of us sitting around today that are very flattered. (Quote by - Brad Brooks)
Look closely at those who patronize you. Half are unfeeling, half untaught. (Quote by - Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe)
He has the right to criticize who has the heart to help. (Quote by - Lincoln)
What drink'st thou oft, instead of homage sweet, But poisoned flattery? (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
You think I love flattery and so I do; but a little too much always disgusts me. (Quote by - Samuel Johnston)
Although a skilful flatterer is a most delightful companion, if you can keep him all to yourself, his taste becomes very doubtful when he takes to complimenting other people. (Quote by - Charles Dickens)
Commendation, n: the tribute that we pay to achievements that resemble, but do not equal, our own. (Quote by - Ambrose Bierce)
The way we respond to criticism pretty much depends on the way we respond to praise. If praise humbles us, then criticism will build us up. But if praise inflates us, then criticism will crush us; and both responses lead to our defeat. (Quote by - Warren W. Wiersbe)
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. (Quote by - Helen Rowland)
I don't like compliments, and I don't see why a man should think he is pleasing a woman enormously when he says to her a whole heap of things that he doesn't mean. (Quote by - Oscar Wilde)
He that flatters you more than you desire either has deceived you or wishes to deceive. (Quote by - Italian proverb)
Nay, do not think I flatter. For what advancement may I hope from thee, That no revenue hast but thy good spirits To feed and clothe thee? Why should the poor be flattered? No, let the candied tongue like absurd pomp, And crook the pregnant hinges of the knee Where thrift may follow fawning. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
One of the highest of human duties is the duty of encouragement...It is easy to laugh at men's ideals; it is easy to pour cold water on their enthusiasm; it is easy to discourage others. The world is full of discouragers. We have a Christian duty to encourage one another. Many a time a word of praise or thanks or appreciation or cheer has kept a man on his feet. Blessed is the man who speaks such a word. (Quote by - William Barclay)
The true test of independent judgement is being able to dislike someone who admires us. (Quote by - Sydney J. Harris)
In publishing, imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. (Quote by - Lynn Garrett)
Flattery is the infantry of negotiation. (Quote by - Lord Chandos)
A little flattery will support a man through great fatigue. (Quote by - James Monroe)
Those who are lifting the world upward and onward are those who encourage more than criticize. (Quote by - Elizabeth Harrison)
I hate careless flattery, the kind that exhausts you in your efforts to believe it. (Quote by - Wilson Mizner)
Flatterers look like friends, as wolves like dogs. (Quote by - George Chapman)
