Flattery is a form of hatred. – Bible
When you cannot get a compliment in any other way pay yourself one. – Mark Twain
To ask advice is in nine cases out of ten to tout for flattery. – John Churton Collins
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
If we did not flatter ourselves, the flattery of others could never harm us. – Francois de La Rochefoucauld
He flatters me because he knows I am flattered by him flattering me. And that flatters him. So when he flatters me, he is really flattering himself. – Jarod Kintz
Some fellows pay a compliment like they expected a receipt. – Kin Hubbard
Many lick before they bite.
If people did not compliment one another there would be little society. – Luc de Clapiers
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.
Flattery is like poison, but of all others requires the finest infusion. – Georges Edmond Howard
Cats, like men, are flatterers. – Walter Savage Landor
Women are never disarmed by compliments; men always are. – Oscar Wilde
It is possible to be below flattery as well as above it. – Thomas B. Macaulay
Flattery works like a drug. – Willis Goth Regier
Madam, before you flatter a man so grossly to his face, you should consider whether your flattery is worth having. – Samuel Johnson
Were we not accustomed to flatter ourselves, the flattery of others would seldom deceive us. – Norman Macdonal
Flattery makes friends and truth makes enemies. – Spanish Proverb
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