Top Flattery Quotes Collection

Discover a curated collection of Flattery quotes. Find inspiration, motivation, and wisdom from the best quotes in this category.

Image of Joseph Addison
The most skillful flattery is to let a person talk on, and be a listener.
- Joseph Addison
Collection: Flattery
Image of Jean Paul
It is easy to flatter; it is harder to praise.
- Jean Paul
Collection: Flattery
Image of Decimius Magnus Ausonius
Ausonius must be read to be believed! As poet, no subject is too trivial for him; as courtier, no flattery too excessive.
- Decimius Magnus Ausonius
Collection: Flattery
Image of Charles R. Forbes
It is possible to be below flattery as well as above it.
- Charles R. Forbes
Collection: Flattery
Image of Tom Wells
The god-who-serves-ME requires flattery, not worship.
- Tom Wells
Collection: Flattery
Image of Charles Lederer
Flattery'll get you anywhere.
- Charles Lederer
Collection: Flattery
Image of L Peter Deutsch
Implementation is the sincerest form of flattery.
- L Peter Deutsch
Collection: Flattery
Image of John Stride
Never patronise someone who knows they don't deserve it, for they will be quick to compliment your failures.
- John Stride
Collection: Flattery
Image of Carolyn Wells
Invitation is the sincerest flattery.
- Carolyn Wells
Collection: Flattery
Image of Alan Bradley
To be most effective, flattery is always best applied with a trowel.
- Alan Bradley
Collection: Flattery
Image of Charles Caleb Colton
Imitation is the sincerest of flattery.
- Charles Caleb Colton
Collection: Flattery
Image of Willis Regier
Like pollen on a honeybee, flattery clings to the things you tell yourself.
- Willis Regier
Collection: Flattery
Image of Oliver Lyttelton, 1st Viscount Chandos
Flattery is the infantry of negotiation.
- Oliver Lyttelton, 1st Viscount Chandos
Collection: Flattery
Image of Mae West
Flattery will get you everywhere.
- Mae West
Collection: Flattery
Image of William Shenstone
Persons who discover a flatterer, do not always disapprove him, because he imagines them considerable enough to deserve his applications.
- William Shenstone
Collection: Flattery
Image of Holly Black
Flattery will get you everywhere," Sam says, "Except, apparently, off a roof.
- Holly Black
Collection: Flattery
Image of Mark Twain
The happy phrasing of a compliment is one of the rarest of human gifts, and the happy delivery of it another.
- Mark Twain
Collection: Flattery
Image of Hannah More
No adulation; 'tis the death of virtue; Who flatters, is of all mankind the lowest Save he who courts the flattery.
- Hannah More
Collection: Flattery
Image of Friedrich Nietzsche
One can also be undignified and flattering toward a virtue.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Collection: Flattery
Image of Melina Marchetta
When a woman has not received much flattery in her life, she will be seduced.
- Melina Marchetta
Collection: Flattery
Image of Alexander Pope
By flatterers besieged And so obliging that he ne'er obliged.
- Alexander Pope
Collection: Flattery
Image of Peter O'Toole
What I like is bottomless flattery.
- Peter O'Toole
Collection: Flattery
Image of Frank Lloyd Wright
Imitation is always insult--not flattery.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
Collection: Flattery
Image of Red Skelton
Imitation isn't the sincerest form of flattery - it's plagiarism.
- Red Skelton
Collection: Flattery
Image of Charlotte Bronte
I like rudeness a great deal better than flattery.
- Charlotte Bronte
Collection: Flattery
Image of Percy Bysshe Shelley
The encomium of one incapable of flattery is indeed flattering.
- Percy Bysshe Shelley
Collection: Flattery
Image of Christopher Paolini
Of course you like him; everyone enjoys flattery.
- Christopher Paolini
Collection: Flattery
Image of Tacitus
Flattery labors under the odious charge of servility.
- Tacitus
Collection: Flattery
Image of Rick Riordan
Imitation is flattery
- Rick Riordan
Collection: Flattery
Image of Jonathan Swift
Nothing is so great an instance of ill-manners as flattery.
- Jonathan Swift
Collection: Flattery
Image of Nachman of Breslov
Flattery leads to vulgarity; the flatterer is despised.
- Nachman of Breslov
Collection: Flattery
Image of Dale Carnegie
Flattery is counterfeit, and like counterfeit money, it will eventually get you into trouble if you pass it to someone else.
- Dale Carnegie
Collection: Flattery
Image of Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington
Flattery, if judiciously administered, is always acceptable.
- Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington
Collection: Flattery
Image of Thomas Browne
Flattery is a juggler, and no kin unto sincerity.
- Thomas Browne
Collection: Flattery
Image of Mason Cooley
Your flattery is as full of contempt as your insults were.
- Mason Cooley
Collection: Flattery
Image of Charles Caleb Colton
Immitation is the sincerest form of flattery.
- Charles Caleb Colton
Collection: Flattery
Image of Charles Caleb Colton
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.
- Charles Caleb Colton
Collection: Flattery
Image of Mason Cooley
Flatter me, but delicately, please, for I am fastidious.
- Mason Cooley
Collection: Flattery
Image of William Feather
Flattery must be pretty thick before anybody objects to it.
- William Feather
Collection: Flattery
Image of Benjamin Franklin
Approve not of him who commends all you say.
- Benjamin Franklin
Collection: Flattery
Image of Benjamin Franklin
Praise to the undeserving is severe satire.
- Benjamin Franklin
Collection: Flattery
Image of William Hazlitt
There is no flattery so adroit or effectual as that of implicit assent.
- William Hazlitt
Collection: Flattery
Image of Isaac Asimov
Flattery is useful when dealing with youngsters.
- Isaac Asimov
Collection: Flattery
Image of Thomas a Kempis
Don't flatter the rich, or appear to willing before the great.
- Thomas a Kempis
Collection: Flattery
Image of Samuel Johnson
He that is much flattered soon learns to flatter himself.
- Samuel Johnson
Collection: Flattery
Image of Norm MacDonald
We would seldom be deceived by flattery, did our own conceit not promote the delusion.
- Norm MacDonald
Collection: Flattery