When a woman has not received much flattery in her life, she will be seduced. – Melina Marchetta
Flattery succeeds best on minds previously occupied by conceit. – Norman Macdonald
Be advised that all flatterers live at the expense of those who listen to them. – Jean de la Fontaine
Flatterers look like friends, as wolves like dogs. – George Chapman
Nothing is so silly as the expression of a man who is being complimented. – Andre Gide
O, that men’s ears should be To counsel deaf, but not to flattery! – William Shakespeare
None are more taken in by flattery than the proud, who wish to be the first and are not. – Baruch Spinoza
The more we love our friends, the less we flatter them; it is by excusing nothing that pure love shows itself. – MoliFre
We swallow with one gulp the lie that flatters us, and drink drop by drop the truth which is bitter to us.
Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver. – Edmund Burke
A flatterer is one who says things to your face that he wouldn’t say behind your back.
Listening, not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery. – Joyce Brothers
He that flatters you more than you desire either has deceived you or wishes to deceive. – Italian Proverb
A little flattery will support a man through great fatigue. – James Monroe
Sweet words are like honey, a little may refresh, but too much gluts the stomach. – Anne Bradstreet
Flattery is all right so long as you don’t inhale. – Adlai E. Stevenson
Flattery was formerly a vice; it has now become the fashion. – Syrus
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 Johnson
He who says he hates every kind of flattery, and says it in earnest, certainly does not yet know every kind of flattery.
Like pollen on a honeybee, flattery clings to the things you tell yourself. – Willis Goth Regier
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