When you cannot get a compliment in any other way pay yourself one. – Mark Twain
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
Sweet words are like honey, a little may refresh, but too much gluts the stomach. – Anne Bradstreet
Flattery was formerly a vice; it has now become the fashion. – Syrus
Cats, like men, are flatterers. – Walter Savage Landor
He who says he hates every kind of flattery, and says it in earnest, certainly does not yet know every kind of flattery.
It is possible to be below flattery as well as above it. – Thomas B. Macaulay
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
To ask advice is in nine cases out of ten to tout for flattery. – John Churton Collins
Were we not accustomed to flatter ourselves, the flattery of others would seldom deceive us. – Norman Macdonal
Many lick before they bite.
If people did not compliment one another there would be little society. – Luc de Clapiers
Flattery is like poison, but of all others requires the finest infusion. – Georges Edmond Howard
Women are never disarmed by compliments; men always are. – Oscar Wilde
If we did not flatter ourselves, the flattery of others could never harm us. – Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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
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 makes friends and truth makes enemies. – Spanish Proverb
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