Quotes About Flattery

If solitude deprives of the benefit of advice, it also excludes from the mischief of flattery. But the absence of others' applause is generally supplied by the flattery of one's own breast.

Flattery was formerly a vice; it has now become the fashion.

Flattery is praise insincerely given for an interested purpose.

The voice of history is often little more than the organ of hatred or flattery.

There's a certain balance between finding an opportunity to do what you really enjoy and getting caught up in the flattery of people wanting you to do things.

Flattery is a base coin which is current only through our vanity.

The flattery is nice, but awards don't add up to writing quality songs.

Nothing is harder to resist than a bit of flattery.

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

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

Let flattery, the handmaid of the vices, be far removed .

When one looks truly at the good side of everyone, others come to love him very naturally, and he does not need even a speck of flattery.

Tis a barbarous temper, and a sign of a very ill nature, to take delight in shocking any one: and, on the contrary, it is the mark of an amiable and a beneficent temper, to say all the kind things one can, without flattery or playing the hypocrite,--and what never fails of procuring the love and esteem of every one; which, next to doing good to a deserving object who wants it, is one of the greatest pleasures of this life.

Flattery is a foolish suicide; she destroys herself with her own hands.

Of all sorts of flattery, that which comes from a solemn character and stands before a sermon is the worst-complexioned. Such commendation is a satire upon the author, makes the text look mercenary, and disables the discourse from doing service.

Flattery'll get you anywhere.

Imitation is flattery

I hate careless flattery, the kind that exhausts you in your efforts to believe it.

Flattery is from the teeth out. Sincere appreciation is from the heart out.

[Samuel] Johnson's conversation was by much too strong for a person accustomed to obsequiousness and flattery; it was mustard in a young child's mouth!

A little flattery makes people feel good about themselves. When you notice someone looking great, give them a compliment.

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.

Like pollen on a honeybee, flattery clings to the things you tell yourself.

Very great personages are not likely to form very just estimates either of others or of themselves; their knowledge of themselves is obscured by the flattery of others; their knowledge of others is equally clouded by circumstances peculiar to themselves. For in the presence of the great, the modest are sure to suffer from too much diffidence, and the confident from too much display.

The voice of flattery affects us after it has ceased, just as after a concert men find some agreeable air ringing in their ears to the exclusion of all serious business.

Flattery, the dangerous nurse of vice.

Flattery is like wine, which exhilarates a man for a moment, but usually ends by going to his head and making him act foolishly.