The more we love our friends, the less we flatter them; it is by excusing nothing that pure love shows itself. – MoliFre
When a woman has not received much flattery in her life, she will be seduced. – Melina Marchetta
Cats, like men, are flatterers. – Walter Savage Landor
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
Be advised that all flatterers live at the expense of those who listen to them. – Jean de la Fontaine
Flattery makes friends and truth makes enemies. – Spanish Proverb
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
Sweet words are like honey, a little may refresh, but too much gluts the stomach. – Anne Bradstreet
Were we not accustomed to flatter ourselves, the flattery of others would seldom deceive us. – Norman Macdonal
Flattery is like poison, but of all others requires the finest infusion. – Georges Edmond Howard
Gossip is what you say about the objects of flattery when they aren’t present. – P. J. O’Rourke
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
Women are never disarmed by compliments; men always are. – Oscar Wilde
He who says he hates every kind of flattery, and says it in earnest, certainly does not yet know every kind of flattery.
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
If we did not flatter ourselves, the flattery of others could never harm us. – Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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.
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