Many know how to flatter, few know how to praise. – Wendell Phillips
O, that men’s ears should be To counsel deaf, but not to flattery! – William Shakespeare
Flattery is all right so long as you don’t inhale. – Adlai E. Stevenson
Flattery succeeds best on minds previously occupied by conceit. – Norman Macdonald
Flattery is like friendship in show, but not in fruit. – Socrates
Flattery is the worst and falsest way of showing our esteem
Nothing is so silly as the expression of a man who is being complimented. – Andre Gide
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.
Be advised that all flatterers live at the expense of those who listen to them. – Jean de la Fontaine
Although a skillful flatterer is a most delightful companion if you have him all to yourself, his taste becomes very doubtful when he takes to complimenting other people. – Charles Dickens
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
Listening, not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery. – Joyce Brothers
Like pollen on a honeybee, flattery clings to the things you tell yourself. – Willis Goth Regier
To ask advice is in nine cases out of ten to tout for flattery. – John Churton Collins
Flattery is like poison, but of all others requires the finest infusion. – Georges Edmond Howard
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