Avoid flatterers, for they are thieves in disguise.

Flee flattery, false praise and fair weather friends

Flattery is a lie covered in a bed of flowery words.

Flattery and criticism are always in our profession.

Copying or imitation is the highest form of flattery.

The god-who-serves-ME requires flattery, not worship.

Flattery labors under the odious charge of servility.

Because nothing says flattery like a gun to the head.

Just praise is only a debt, but flattery is a present.

Flattery is like friendship in show, but not in fruit.

Flattery leads to vulgarity; the flatterer is despised.

Let those flatter who fear; it is not an American art .

Not kings alone--the people, too, have their flatterers.

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

Flatter me, but delicately, please, for I am fastidious.

The gallantry of the mind consists in agreeable flattery.

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

He that is much flattered soon learns to flatter himself.

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

I think imitation is always the greatest form of flattery.

Your flattery is as full of contempt as your insults were.

We despise no source that can pay us a pleasing attention.

Advertising - a judicious mixture of flattery and threats.

To say a compliment well is a high art and few possess it.

It is easier and handier for men to flatter than to praise.

Flattery must be pretty thick before anybody objects to it.

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

I think people ragging on me is kind of a form of flattery.

A little flattery will support a man through great fatigue.

Nothing is so great an instance of ill-manners as flattery.

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

But here's the joy: my friend and I are one, Sweet flattery!

Flattery is the worst and falsest way of showing our esteem.

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

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

Flattery, if judiciously administered, is always acceptable.

People flatter us because they can depend upon our credulity.

I have a car that I call Flattery because it gets me nowhere.

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

Don't flatter the rich, or appear to willing before the great.

A fool can no more see his own folly than he can see his ears.

Every flatterer lives at the expense of him who listens to him.

Flattery and insults raise the same question: What do you want?

The encomium of one incapable of flattery is indeed flattering.

They told me I was everything. 'Tis a lie, I am not ague-proof.

Flattery is praise insincerely given for an interested purpose.

Flattery succeeds best on minds previously occupied by conceit.

To ask advice is in nine cases out of ten to tout for flattery.

O that men's ears should be To counsel deaf but not to flattery!

Listening, not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery.

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