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Though flattery blossoms like friendship, yet there is a vast difference in the fruit.
Flatterers are the worst kind of enemies. [Lat., Pessimum genus inimicorum laudantes.]
None are more taken in by flattery than the proud, who wish to be the first and are not.
Wounded pride can take a rich young man far who is surrounded by flatterers since birth.
Everyone likes flattery; and when you come to Royalty you should lay it on with a trowel.
Praise a stranger with a few nice words and he becomes a stranger that calls you a friend.
Flattery is so necessary to us that we flatter one another just to be flattered in return.
Nature has hardly formed a woman ugly enough to be insensible to flattery upon her person.
Imitation is not just the sincerest form of flattery - it's the sincerest form of learning.
One may define flattery as a base companionship which is most advantageous to the flatterer.
Now flattery can never do good; twice cursed in the giving and the receiving, it ought to be.
Grant me prudently to avoid him that flatters me, and to endure patiently him that contradicts me.
I see this evident, that we willingly accord to piety only the services that flatter our passions.
I know imitation is the highest form of flattery, but stealing one's identity is totally different.
Whitney: You black-hearted, treacherous, conniving scoundrel. Clayton: Your flattery warms my heart
The flattery of posterity is not worth much more than contemporary flattery, which is worth nothing.
Every woman is infallibly to be gained by every sort of flattery, and every man by one sort or other.
Flattery, if judiciously administered, is always acceptable, however much we may despise the flatterer.
In Hollywood, imitation is the most profitable form of flattery. That is the only plausible explanation.
We swallow with one gulp the lie that flatters us, and drink drop by drop the truth which is bitter to us.
I have already settled it for myself so flattery and criticism go down the same drain and I am quite free.
Sheer flattery got me into the theater. Flattery always works with me, particularly the flattery of women.
Flattery was one of Kissinger's principal tools in winning over Nixon, and a tool he employed shamelessly.
Never patronise someone who knows they don't deserve it, for they will be quick to compliment your failures.
Probably one of the reasons why gushing is so unattractive is that it leaves nothing for the listener to do.
Do not offer a compliment and ask a favor at the same time. A compliment that is charged for is not valuable.
The happy phrasing of a compliment is one of the rarest of human gifts, and the happy delivery of it another.
Love of another is merely empty flattery and self-deception for one who cannot accept himself without pretense.
Among all the diseases of the mind there is not one more epidemical or more pernicious than the love of flattery.
Am I the only person in the world who is shocked and amazed at the ongoing flattery of uebergeek Mark Zuckerberg?
Because all men are apt to flatter themselves, to entertain the addition of other men's praises is most perilous.
No adulation; 'tis the death of virtue; Who flatters, is of all mankind the lowest Save he who courts the flattery.
Direct, forceful, energetic. Loves power, eats up publicity and flattery... Can turn on charm at will and knows it.
Flattery is often a traffic of mutual meanness, where although both parties intend deception, neither are deceived.
I have always found it interesting... that there are people who regard copyright infringement as a form of flattery.
Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver; and adulation is not of more service to the people than to kings.
It is no flattery to give a friend a due character; for commendation is as much the duty of a friend as reprehension.
He who says he hates every kind of flattery, and says it in earnest, certainly does not yet know every kind of flattery.
Complimenting someone in an exaggerated way is known as flattery, and flattery will generally get you anything you want.
The flatterer easily insinuates himself into the closet, while honest merit stands shivering in the hall or antechamber.
Ausonius must be read to be believed! As poet, no subject is too trivial for him; as courtier, no flattery too excessive.
We love flattery, even though we are not deceived by it, because it shows that we are of importance enough to be courted.
Our domestic Napoleons, too many of them, give flattery, bonnets and bracelets to women, and everything else but - justice.
Katherine Kenton remains among the generation of women who feel that the most sincere form of flattery is the male erection.
Flattery is counterfeit, and like counterfeit money, it will eventually get you into trouble if you pass it to someone else.
The world is grown so full of dissimulation and compliment, that men's words are hardly any signification of their thoughts.
The habit of pleasing by flattery makes a language soft; the fear of offending by truth makes it circuitous and conventional.
Patron: One who countenances, supports or protects. Commonly a wretch who supports with insolence, and is repaid in flattery.
Madam, before you flatter a man so grossly to his face, you should consider whether or not your flattery is worth his having.
In my experience, there are two things that no one will admit to: having no sense of humor and being susceptible to flattery.