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Flattery Quotes

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We must define flattery and praise; they are distinct. Trajan was encouraged to virtue by the panegyric Pliny; Tiberius became obstinate in vice from the flattery of his senators.
Louis XVI of France

We must differentiate between adulation and commendation; they are disparate. Trajan was motivated to righteousness by Pliny's laudatory speech; Tiberius became entrenched in wickedness from the sycophancy of his legislators.
Authors on Flattery Quotes: William Shakespeare Francois de La Rochefoucauld Samuel Johnson Benjamin Franklin Charles Caleb Colton Mark Twain Mason Cooley Jonathan Swift Willis Regier Norm MacDonald Tacitus Bill Vaughan Dale Carnegie Socrates Publilius Syrus Richard Steele Kin Hubbard Pietro Aretino Thomas a Kempis Charlotte Bronte Edmund Burke Marcus Aurelius Lord Chesterfield Oliver Goldsmith Walter Raleigh Jean de La Fontaine Henry Ward Beecher William Shenstone Marcus Tullius Cicero Joseph Addison Walter Savage Landor Michel de Montaigne Sophie Swetchine
2.
Imitation is the surest form of flattery and failure. I am not interested with your talk about my ideas. I am more interested in your applying them to your life. If you do not, then you are essentially not in accord with your own mind.
Miyamoto Musashi

3.
Every flatterer lives at the expense of him who listens to him.
Jean de La Fontaine

4.
Praise to the undeserving is severe satire.
Benjamin Franklin

5.
There is no other way to guard yourself against flattery than by making men understand that telling you the truth will not offend you.
Niccolo Machiavelli

6.
I have already settled it for myself so flattery and criticism go down the same drain and I am quite free.
Georgia O'Keeffe

7.
He that loves to be flattered is worthy o' the flatterer.
William Shakespeare

8.
Immigration is the sincerest form of flattery.
Jack Paar

9.
Avoid flatterers, for they are thieves in disguise.
William Penn

10.
Look closely at those who patronize you. Half are unfeeling, half untaught.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

11.
Imitation is not just the sincerest form of flattery - it's the sincerest form of learning.
George Bernard Shaw

12.
Sarcasm is the lowest form of humor but the highest form of flattery.
Benjamin Franklin

13.
But it is hard to know them from friends, they are so obsequious and full of protestations; for a wolf resembles a dog, so doth a flatterer a friend.
Walter Raleigh

14.
Flattery is telling the other person precisely what he thinks about himself.
Dale Carnegie

15.
Among all the diseases of the mind there is not one more epidemical or more pernicious than the love of flattery.
Richard Steele

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A flatterer never seems absurd: The flatter'd always takes his word.
Benjamin Franklin

17.
The most skillful flattery is to let a person talk on, and be a listener.
Joseph Addison

18.
Our domestic Napoleons, too many of them, give flattery, bonnets and bracelets to women, and everything else but - justice.
Fanny Fern

19.
Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver; and adulation is not of more service to the people than to kings.
Edmund Burke

20.
Flattery is all right so long as you don't inhale.
Adlai E. Stevenson

21.
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.
Edith Sitwell

22.
One may define flattery as a base companionship which is most advantageous to the flatterer.
Theophrastus

23.
If we did not flatter ourselves,
the flattery of others could never harm us.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

24.
Flee flattery, false praise and fair weather friends
Fraser Young

25.
By flatterers besieged And so obliging that he ne'er obliged.
Alexander Pope

26.
No adulation; 'tis the death of virtue; Who flatters, is of all mankind the lowest Save he who courts the flattery.
Hannah More

27.
Perfumed and gallant words make our ears belch.
Pietro Aretino

28.
Of praise a mere glutton, he swallow'd what came, And the puff a dunce, he mistook it for fame; Till his relish grown callous, almost to displease, Who pepper'd the highest was surest to please.
Oliver Goldsmith

29.
Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.
Edmund Burke

30.
Nothing is harder to resist than a bit of flattery.
Arnold Lobel

31.
Gallantry of mind consists in saying flattering things in an agreeable manner.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

32.
They say one of the greatest forms of flattery is for your son to follow in your footsteps. And so I enjoy that greatest form of flattery, without a doubt.
Dennis Franchione

33.
Though flattery blossoms like friendship, yet there is a vast difference in the fruit.
Socrates

34.
Of all wild beasts preserve me from a tyrant; and of all tame a flatterer.
Ben Jonson

35.
Imitation is flattery, and The Hills Have Eyes is a classic.
Michael Berryman

36.
He does me double wrong That wounds me with the flatteries of his tongue.
William Shakespeare

37.
Flattery labors under the odious charge of servility.
Tacitus

38.
Because nothing says flattery like a gun to the head.
Jim Butcher

39.
Do not offer a compliment and ask a favor at the same time. A compliment that is charged for is not valuable.
Mark Twain

40.
A fool can no more see his own folly than he can see his ears.
William Makepeace Thackeray

41.
Direct, forceful, energetic. Loves power, eats up publicity and flattery... Can turn on charm at will and knows it.
Joseph Stilwell

42.
When we are not engaged in thinking about some definite problem,
we usually spend about 95 percent of our time thinking about ourselves.
Now,
if we stop thinking about ourselves for a while and begin to think of the other person's good points,
we won't have to resort to flattery so cheap and false that it can be spotted almost before it is out of the mouth.
Dale Carnegie

43.
The habit of pleasing by flattery makes a language soft; the fear of offending by truth makes it circuitous and conventional.
Walter Savage Landor

44.
Flattery is like a painted armor; only for show.
Socrates

45.
Flattery will get you everywhere.
Mae West

46.
What drink'st thou oft, instead of homage sweet, But poisoned flattery?
William Shakespeare

47.
Imitation is the highest form of flattery.
Charles Caleb Colton

48.
You can stroke people with words.
F. Scott Fitzgerald

49.
In the best, the friendliest and simplest relations flattery or praise is necessary, just as grease is necessary to keep wheels turning.
Leo Tolstoy

50.
Flattery of the verbal kind is gross. In short, applause is of too coarse a nature to be swallowed in the gross, though the extract or tincture be ever so agreeable.
William Shenstone