Quotes About Flattery

The firmest purpose of a woman's heart to well-timed, artful flattery may yield.

Our credulity is greatest concerning the things we know least about. And since we know least about ourselves, we are ready to believe all that is said about us. Hence the mysterious power of both flattery and calumny.

True love is mixed up with birdlike squabbles, in which the disputants wound each other to the quick; but a quarrel without animus is, on the contrary, apiece of flattery to the dupe's conceit.

That little hypocrites and half-crazed people dare to imagine that on their account the laws of nature are constantly broken; such an enhancement of every kind of selfishness to infinity, to impudence, cannot be branded with sufficient contempt. And yet Christianity owes its triumph to this pitiable flattery of personal vanity.

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

It is an unquestionable truth, that the body of the people in every country desire sincerely its prosperity. But it is equally unquestionable that they do not possess the discernment and stability necessary for systematic government. To deny that they are frequently led into the grossest of errors, by misinformation and passion, would be a flattery which their own good sense must despise.

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

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

Everyone likes flattery; and when you come to Royalty you should lay it on with a trowel.

As kings are begotten and born like other men, it is to be presumed that they are of the human species; and perhaps, had they thesame education, they might prove like other men. But, flattered from their cradles, their hearts are corrupted, and their heads are turned, so that they seem to be a species by themselves.... Flattery cannot be too strong for them; drunk with it from their infancy, like old drinkers, they require dreams.

Flattery will get you everywhere.

Imitation is not just the sincerest form of flattery - it's the sincerest form of learning.

Some indeed there are who profess to despise all flattery, but even these are nevertheless to be flattered, by being told that they do despise it.

Can honor's voice provoke the silent dust, or flattery soothe the dull, cold ear of death?

Whenever you commend, add your reasons for doing so; it is this which distinguishes the approbation of a man of sense from the flattery of sycophants and admiration of fools.

It is worth thought what kind of mind or condition or disposition is open to flattery; for poison would not be spread if the rats ate it not.

It is possible to be below flattery as well as above it.

Patron: One who countenances, supports or protects. Commonly a wretch who supports with insolence, and is repaid in flattery.

There is no tongue that flatters like a lover's; and yet, in the exaggeration of his feelings, flattery seems to him commonplace. Strange and prodigal exuberance, which soon exhausts itself by flowing!

Love of flattery, in most men, proceeds from the mean opinion they have of themselves; in women, from the contrary.

Flattery is an ensnaring quality, and leaves a very dangerous impression. It swells a man's imagination, entertains his vanity, and drives him to a doting upon his own person.

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.

Money is the sincerest of all flattery. Women love to be flattered. So do men.

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

Sometimes we think we dislike flattery, but it is only the way it is done that we dislike.

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