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Sheer flattery got me into the theater. Flattery always works with me, particularly the flattery of ...
CARROLL O'CONNOR![]()
The flattery of posterity is not worth much more than contemporary flattery, which is worth nothing.
JORGE LUIS BORGES I was proud of our kids for how we battled in the second half. We were down by such a deficit and it...
MICK FLATTERY![]()
O, that men's ears should be
To counsel deaf, but not to flattery!
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE![]()
O that men's ears should be
To counsel deaf but not to flattery!
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE![]()
Imitation is the sincerest of flattery.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON Flattery is the infantry of negotiation.
LORD CHANDOS To be most effective, flattery is always best applied with a trowel.
ALAN BRADLEY![]()
Imitation is the sincerest flattery
CHARLES CALEB COLTON![]()
Imitation is the sincerest flattery.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON Immigration is the sincerest form of flattery.
JACK PAAR![]()
Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON Immigration is the sincerest form of flattery
JACK PAAR Flattery is a form of hatred.
BIBLE![]()
Complimenting someone in an exaggerated way is known as flattery, and flattery will generally get yo...
LEMONY SNICKET Imitation is the most serious form of flattery
PROVERB![]()
We sometimes imagine we hate flattery, but we only hate the way we are flattered.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD They who delight to be flattered, pay for their folly by a late repentance. [Lat., Qu se laudari ...
PHAEDRUS (THRACE OF MACEDONIA)![]()
No adulation; 'tis the death of virtue;
Who flatters, is of all mankind the lowest
Save he who...
HANNAH MORE![]()
Flattery is all right if you don't inhale.
ADLAI E. STEVENSON![]()
It is easier and handier for men to flatter than to praise.
[Ger., Es ist dem Menschen leichter un...
JEAN PAUL RICHTER![]()
It is easy to flatter; it is harder to praise.
JEAN PAUL RICHTER![]()
Avoid flatterers, for they are thieves in disguise.
WILLIAM PENN![]()
To be a man's own fool is bad enough; but the vain man is everybody's.
WILLIAM PENN![]()
I once had a rose named after me and I was very flattered. But I was not pleased to read the descrip...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT![]()
Flattery is telling the other person precisely what he thinks about himself
DALE CARNEGIE![]()
Fools grow without watering.
THOMAS FULLER![]()
Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt of, not swallowed
JOSH BILLINGS![]()
Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt of, not swallowed.
JOSH BILLINGS![]()
The best way to convince a fool that he is wrong is to let him have his own way.
JOSH BILLINGS![]()
Nature has hardly formed a woman ugly enough to be insensible to flattery upon her person.
LORD CHESTERFIELD None are more taken in with flattery than the proud, who wish to be the first and are not.
BENEDICT SPINOZA![]()
It is better to fall among crows than flatterers; for those devour only the dead--these the living.
ANTISTHENES![]()
It's been many years since I had such an exemplary vegetable.
JANE AUSTEN![]()
A fool can no more see his own folly than he can see his ears.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY![]()
We sometimes think that we hate flattery, but we only hate the
manner in which it is done.
[Fr., ...
FRANCOIS DUC DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD![]()
It has been well said that "the arch-flatterer with whom all the
petty flatterers have intelligence...
UNKNOWN![]()
Flattery is all right so long as you don't inhale.
ADLAI E. STEVENSON![]()
Flattery is like friendship in show, but not in fruit
SOCRATES Nobody can describe a fool to the life, without much patient self-inspection.
FRANK MOORE COLBY![]()
If you can't love, learn how to flatter.
ANONYMOUS![]()
Where Young must torture his invention
To flatter knaves, or lose his pension.
JONATHAN SWIFT![]()
'Tis an old maxim in the schools,
That flattery's the food of fools;
Yet now and then your men...
JONATHAN SWIFT![]()
If he be so resolved,
I can o'ersway him; for he loves to hear
That unicorns may be betrayed w...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE![]()
Mine eyes
Were not in fault, for she was beautiful;
Mine ears, that heard her flattery; nor my...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE![]()
By flatterers besieged
And so obliging that he ne'er obliged.
ALEXANDER POPE![]()
Gallantry of mind consists in saying flattering things in an
agreeable manner.
FRANCOIS DUC DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD![]()
Let flattery, the handmaid of the vices, be far removed (from
friendship).
[Lat., Assentatio, vit...
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO)![]()
Flattery is the worst and falsest way of showing our esteem
JONATHAN SWIFT![]()
The skilful class of flatterers praise the discourse of an
ignorant friend and the face of a deform...
JUVENAL (DECIMUS JUNIUS JUVENAL) For there is no faithfulness in their mouth; their inward part is very wickedness; their throat is ...
BIBLE![]()
A woman's flattery may inflate a man's head a little; but her criticism goes straight to his heart,...
HELEN ROWLAND Flattery of sycophants may look tempting and tastes like mouth-watering delicious sweets,but it can ...
ANUJ SOMANY The gentle wave of self-enjoyment on received flattery even inundates and capsizes many thinking cap...
ANUJ SOMANY One's self-enjoyment of received flattery innudates and capsizes his thinking cap.
ANUJ SOMANY The battery of flattery received and enjoyed as lottery by a man from the coterie just flattens his ...
ANUJ SOMANY Flattery is like chewing gum. Enjoy it but don't swallow it.
HANK KETCHAM They say one of the greatest forms of flattery is for your son to follow in your footsteps. And so I...
DENNIS FRANCHIONE![]()
One may define flattery as a base companionship which is most advantageous to the flatterer.
THEOPHRASTUS He that rewards flattery, begs it
PROVERB![]()
What really flatters a man is that you think him worth
flattering.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW![]()
When Fortune flatters, she does it to betray.
SYRUS (PUBLILIUS SYRUS)![]()
Flattery was formerly a vice; it has now become the fashion.
[Lat., Pessimum genus inimicorum laud...
SYRUS (PUBLILIUS SYRUS)![]()
Take no repulse, whatever she doth say;
For 'get you gone,' she doth not mean 'away.'
Flatter ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE![]()
They do not abuse the king that flatter him.
For flattery is the bellows blows up sin;
The thi...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE![]()
What drink'st thou oft, instead of homage sweet,
But poisoned flattery?
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE![]()
Nay, do not think I flatter.
For what advancement may I hope from thee,
That no revenue hast b...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE![]()
By God, I cannot flatter, I do defy
The tongues of soothers! but a braver place
In my heart's...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE![]()
Always let your flattery be seen through for what really flatters a man is that you think him worth ...
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW![]()
What really flatters a man is that you think him worth flattering.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW![]()
Of praise a mere glutton, he swallow'd what came,
And the puff a dunce, he mistook it for fame;
...
OLIVER GOLDSMITH![]()
Flattery will get you everywhere.
MAE WEST![]()
Let us be thankful for the fools; but for them the rest of us could not succeed.
MARK TWAIN Flattery - If you want to get to the top, prepare to kiss a lot of the bottom.
LARRY KERSTEN![]()
Copying is the greatest form of flattery, I guess. I am actually a little surprised that Vincent Lo ...
DONALD TRUMP![]()
To ask advice is in nine cases out of ten to tout for flattery
JOHN CHURTON COLLINS![]()
Do you know what that’s like? How good it feels? For once in my life, someone wants me.
BRYNNA GABRIELSON![]()
He who says he hates every kind of flattery, and says it in earnest, certainly does not yet know eve...
G. C. (GEORG CHRISTOPH) LICHTENBERG![]()
He who says he hates every kind of flattery, and says it in earnest, certainly does not yet know eve...
GEORG C. LICHTENBERG![]()
Baloney is flattery laid on so thick it cannot be true, and blarney is flattery so thin we love it.
FULTON JOHN SHEEN![]()
Heart-stopping envy is the sincerest form of flattery.
ANNA GODBERSEN In publishing, imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.
LYNN GARRETT![]()
Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.
EDMUND BURKE![]()
Knavery and flattery are blood relations.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN![]()
What valor cannot win, flattery may.
PUBLILIUS SYRUS![]()
Flattery brings friends, but the truth begets enmity.
LORD ALFRED TENNYSON![]()
Advertising - A judicious mixture of flattery and threats.
STEPHEN LEACOCK![]()
Imitation is obviously a great form of flattery.
PEYTON MANNING![]()
Advertising - a judicious mixture of flattery and threats.
NORTHROP FRYE![]()
Of course you like him; everyone enjoys flattery.
CHRISTOPHER PAOLINI![]()
Listening, not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery.
JOYCE BROTHERS![]()
Listening, not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery.
DR. JOYCE BROTHERS Flattery makes friends and truth makes enemies.
PROVERB![]()
Flattery makes friends and truth makes enemies.
SPANISH PROVERB Flattery is alright if you don't inhale.
ADLAI STEVENSON SAMPER The best form of flattery is to master the art of listening.
VIKRANT PARSAI![]()
Flattery is all right so long as you don't inhale.
ADLAI E. STEVENSON You will thank me one day for not filling your head with false compliments. Adversity teaches one mo...
RACHEL E. CARTER![]()
Flattery is all right if you don't inhale.
ADLAI STEVENSON![]()
Because nothing says flattery like a gun to the head.
JIM BUTCHER
CARROLL O'CONNOR
The flattery of posterity is not worth much more than contemporary flattery, which is worth nothing. JORGE LUIS BORGES I was proud of our kids for how we battled in the second half. We were down by such a deficit and it...
MICK FLATTERY
O, that men's ears should be
To counsel deaf, but not to flattery! WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
O that men's ears should be
To counsel deaf but not to flattery! WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Imitation is the sincerest of flattery. CHARLES CALEB COLTON Flattery is the infantry of negotiation.
LORD CHANDOS To be most effective, flattery is always best applied with a trowel.
ALAN BRADLEY
Imitation is the sincerest flattery CHARLES CALEB COLTON
Imitation is the sincerest flattery. CHARLES CALEB COLTON Immigration is the sincerest form of flattery.
JACK PAAR
Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. CHARLES CALEB COLTON Immigration is the sincerest form of flattery
JACK PAAR Flattery is a form of hatred.
BIBLE
Complimenting someone in an exaggerated way is known as flattery, and flattery will generally get yo... LEMONY SNICKET Imitation is the most serious form of flattery
PROVERB
We sometimes imagine we hate flattery, but we only hate the way we are flattered. FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD They who delight to be flattered, pay for their folly by a late repentance. [Lat., Qu se laudari ...
PHAEDRUS (THRACE OF MACEDONIA)
No adulation; 'tis the death of virtue;
Who flatters, is of all mankind the lowest
Save he who... HANNAH MORE
Flattery is all right if you don't inhale. ADLAI E. STEVENSON
It is easier and handier for men to flatter than to praise.
[Ger., Es ist dem Menschen leichter un... JEAN PAUL RICHTER
It is easy to flatter; it is harder to praise. JEAN PAUL RICHTER
Avoid flatterers, for they are thieves in disguise. WILLIAM PENN
To be a man's own fool is bad enough; but the vain man is everybody's. WILLIAM PENN
I once had a rose named after me and I was very flattered. But I was not pleased to read the descrip... ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
Flattery is telling the other person precisely what he thinks about himself DALE CARNEGIE
Fools grow without watering. THOMAS FULLER
Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt of, not swallowed JOSH BILLINGS
Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt of, not swallowed. JOSH BILLINGS
The best way to convince a fool that he is wrong is to let him have his own way. JOSH BILLINGS
Nature has hardly formed a woman ugly enough to be insensible to flattery upon her person. LORD CHESTERFIELD None are more taken in with flattery than the proud, who wish to be the first and are not.
BENEDICT SPINOZA
It is better to fall among crows than flatterers; for those devour only the dead--these the living. ANTISTHENES
It's been many years since I had such an exemplary vegetable. JANE AUSTEN
A fool can no more see his own folly than he can see his ears. WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY
We sometimes think that we hate flattery, but we only hate the
manner in which it is done.
[Fr., ... FRANCOIS DUC DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD
It has been well said that "the arch-flatterer with whom all the
petty flatterers have intelligence... UNKNOWN
Flattery is all right so long as you don't inhale. ADLAI E. STEVENSON
Flattery is like friendship in show, but not in fruit SOCRATES Nobody can describe a fool to the life, without much patient self-inspection.
FRANK MOORE COLBY
If you can't love, learn how to flatter. ANONYMOUS
Where Young must torture his invention
To flatter knaves, or lose his pension. JONATHAN SWIFT
'Tis an old maxim in the schools,
That flattery's the food of fools;
Yet now and then your men... JONATHAN SWIFT
If he be so resolved,
I can o'ersway him; for he loves to hear
That unicorns may be betrayed w... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Mine eyes
Were not in fault, for she was beautiful;
Mine ears, that heard her flattery; nor my... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
By flatterers besieged
And so obliging that he ne'er obliged. ALEXANDER POPE
Gallantry of mind consists in saying flattering things in an
agreeable manner. FRANCOIS DUC DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD
Let flattery, the handmaid of the vices, be far removed (from
friendship).
[Lat., Assentatio, vit... CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO)
Flattery is the worst and falsest way of showing our esteem JONATHAN SWIFT
The skilful class of flatterers praise the discourse of an
ignorant friend and the face of a deform... JUVENAL (DECIMUS JUNIUS JUVENAL) For there is no faithfulness in their mouth; their inward part is very wickedness; their throat is ...
BIBLE
A woman's flattery may inflate a man's head a little; but her criticism goes straight to his heart,... HELEN ROWLAND Flattery of sycophants may look tempting and tastes like mouth-watering delicious sweets,but it can ...
ANUJ SOMANY The gentle wave of self-enjoyment on received flattery even inundates and capsizes many thinking cap...
ANUJ SOMANY One's self-enjoyment of received flattery innudates and capsizes his thinking cap.
ANUJ SOMANY The battery of flattery received and enjoyed as lottery by a man from the coterie just flattens his ...
ANUJ SOMANY Flattery is like chewing gum. Enjoy it but don't swallow it.
HANK KETCHAM They say one of the greatest forms of flattery is for your son to follow in your footsteps. And so I...
DENNIS FRANCHIONE
One may define flattery as a base companionship which is most advantageous to the flatterer. THEOPHRASTUS He that rewards flattery, begs it
PROVERB
What really flatters a man is that you think him worth
flattering. GEORGE BERNARD SHAW
When Fortune flatters, she does it to betray. SYRUS (PUBLILIUS SYRUS)
Flattery was formerly a vice; it has now become the fashion.
[Lat., Pessimum genus inimicorum laud... SYRUS (PUBLILIUS SYRUS)
Take no repulse, whatever she doth say;
For 'get you gone,' she doth not mean 'away.'
Flatter ... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
They do not abuse the king that flatter him.
For flattery is the bellows blows up sin;
The thi... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
What drink'st thou oft, instead of homage sweet,
But poisoned flattery? WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Nay, do not think I flatter.
For what advancement may I hope from thee,
That no revenue hast b... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
By God, I cannot flatter, I do defy
The tongues of soothers! but a braver place
In my heart's... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Always let your flattery be seen through for what really flatters a man is that you think him worth ... GEORGE BERNARD SHAW
What really flatters a man is that you think him worth flattering. GEORGE BERNARD SHAW
Of praise a mere glutton, he swallow'd what came,
And the puff a dunce, he mistook it for fame;
... OLIVER GOLDSMITH
Flattery will get you everywhere. MAE WEST
Let us be thankful for the fools; but for them the rest of us could not succeed. MARK TWAIN Flattery - If you want to get to the top, prepare to kiss a lot of the bottom.
LARRY KERSTEN
Copying is the greatest form of flattery, I guess. I am actually a little surprised that Vincent Lo ... DONALD TRUMP
To ask advice is in nine cases out of ten to tout for flattery JOHN CHURTON COLLINS
Do you know what that’s like? How good it feels? For once in my life, someone wants me. BRYNNA GABRIELSON
He who says he hates every kind of flattery, and says it in earnest, certainly does not yet know eve... G. C. (GEORG CHRISTOPH) LICHTENBERG
He who says he hates every kind of flattery, and says it in earnest, certainly does not yet know eve... GEORG C. LICHTENBERG
Baloney is flattery laid on so thick it cannot be true, and blarney is flattery so thin we love it. FULTON JOHN SHEEN
Heart-stopping envy is the sincerest form of flattery. ANNA GODBERSEN In publishing, imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.
LYNN GARRETT
Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver. EDMUND BURKE
Knavery and flattery are blood relations. ABRAHAM LINCOLN
What valor cannot win, flattery may. PUBLILIUS SYRUS
Flattery brings friends, but the truth begets enmity. LORD ALFRED TENNYSON
Advertising - A judicious mixture of flattery and threats. STEPHEN LEACOCK
Imitation is obviously a great form of flattery. PEYTON MANNING
Advertising - a judicious mixture of flattery and threats. NORTHROP FRYE
Of course you like him; everyone enjoys flattery. CHRISTOPHER PAOLINI
Listening, not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery. JOYCE BROTHERS
Listening, not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery. DR. JOYCE BROTHERS Flattery makes friends and truth makes enemies.
PROVERB
Flattery makes friends and truth makes enemies. SPANISH PROVERB Flattery is alright if you don't inhale.
ADLAI STEVENSON SAMPER The best form of flattery is to master the art of listening.
VIKRANT PARSAI
Flattery is all right so long as you don't inhale. ADLAI E. STEVENSON You will thank me one day for not filling your head with false compliments. Adversity teaches one mo...
RACHEL E. CARTER
Flattery is all right if you don't inhale. ADLAI STEVENSON
Because nothing says flattery like a gun to the head. JIM BUTCHER
There is something in us, as storytellers and as listeners to stories, that demands the redemptive a... 
The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it. 
Mrs. Hopewell had no bad qualities of her own but she was able to use other people's in such a const... 
Do the best you can in every task, no matter how unimportant it may seem at the time. No one learns ... 
Those who would renegotiate the boundaries between church and state must therefore answer a difficul... 