Flattery Quotes

“Nothing is so great an instance of ill-manners as flattery. If you flatter all the company, you please none; If you flatter only one or two, you offend the rest.”

“Do not be afraid of enemies who attack you. Be afraid of the friends who flatter you.”

“The most dangerous of all flattery is the inferiority of those who surround us.”

“Flattery is a false coin which has currency only through our vanity.”

“Flattery is the treating of a man in a way which is calculated to be pleasant to him, but is not for his good.”

“The art of pleasing is the art of deceiving.”

“The girls themselves are evidence that there is a God.”

“It is better to fall among crows than flatterers; for those devour the dead, these the living.”

“Don't tell a woman she's pretty; tell her there's no other woman like her, and all roads will be open to you.”

“Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt of, not swallowed.”

“A fool flatters himself, a wise man flatters the fool.”

“Flattery, though a base and vicious thing, is nevertheless a quality of which a candidate cannot well divest himself.”

“Flattery is a sort of bad money, to which our vanity gives currency.”

“Imitation is the sincerest of flattery.”

“He who knows how to flatter also knows how to slander.”

“Oh, darling, I'm so glad you're here! You know, we're just about to start a new book, and you're the first chapter.”

“Exclusiveness is the salt of the earth, and you are the crème de la crème.”

“Nothing in this world is harder than speaking the truth, nothing easier than flattery.”

“My wife, she's a big fan of yours.”

“It's a maxim with me, sir, that a lady can never be in the wrong.”