Flattery quotes

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◆ Hating is the sincerest form of flattery.

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◆ One may define flattery as a base companionship which is most advantageous to the flatterer.

- Theophrastus99

◆ A little flattery will support a man through great fatigue.

- James Monroe99

◆ Flattery is like chewing gum. Enjoy it but don't swallow it.

- Hank Ketcham99

◆ Flattery and insults raise the same question: What do you want?

- Mason Cooley99

◆ Flattery is the infantry of negotiation.

- Lord Chandos99

◆ When will the public cease to insult the teacher's calling with empty flattery? When will men who would never for a moment encourage their own sons to enter the work of the public schools cease to tell us that education is the greatest and noblest of all human callings?

- Sparky Anderson99

◆ The habitude of pleasing by flattery makes a language soft; the fear of offending by truth makes it circuitous and conventional

- Walter Savage Landor99

◆ Flattery is the worst and falsest way of showing our esteem

- Jonathan Swift99

◆ Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt of, not swallowed

- Josh Billings99

◆ I can spot empty flattery and know exactly where I stand. In the end it's really only my own approval or disapproval that means anything.

- Agnetha Faltskog99

◆ Flattery is all right so long as you don't inhale.

- Adlai E Stevenson99

◆ Flattery is like friendship in show, but not in fruit

- Socrates99

◆ Flattery is telling the other person precisely what he thinks about himself

- Dale Carnegie99

◆ I once had a rose named after me and I was very flattered. But I was not pleased to read the description in the catalogue: no good in a bed, but fine up against a wall.

- Eleanor Roosevelt99