Flattery quotations

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◆ Telling a girl she's hot is flattering but telling a girl she's beautiful means so much more ...

- Ana Chable99

◆ Let those flatter who fear; it is not an American art

- Thomas Jefferson98

◆ What signifies protesting so against flattery! when a person speaks well of one, it must either be true or false, you know; if true, let us rejoice in his good opinion; if he lies, it is a proof at least that he loves more to please me, than to sit s

- Samuel Johnson98

◆ The aim of flattery is to soothe and encourage us by assuring us of the truth of an opinion we have already formed about ourselves.

- Dame Edith Sitwell98

◆ Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.

- Edmund Burke98

◆ Listening, not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery.

- Joyce Brothers98

◆ Imitation is the sincerest flattery.

- Mohandas Gandhi98

◆ Between flattery and admiration there often flows a river of contempt.

- Minna Antrim98

◆ He that rewards flattery, begs it

- Proverb98

◆ Flattery is a counterfeit money which, but for vanity, would have no circulation.

- Francois La Rochefoucauld98

◆ We love flattery, even though we are not deceived by it, because it shows that we are of importance enough to be courted.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson98