Flattery is praise insincerely given for an interested purpose..

The world is grown so full of dissimulation and compliment, that men's words are hardly any signification of their thoughts..

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

Truth and ceremony are two things..

I like rudeness a great deal better than flattery..

Flattery'll get you anywhere..

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

True love is mixed up with birdlike squabbles, in which the disputants wound each other to the quick; but a quarrel without animus is, on the contrar….

Flattery, though a base coin, is the necessary pocket money at court; where, by custom and consent, it has obtained such a currency that it is no lon….

I have already settled it for myself so flattery and criticism go down the same drain and I am quite free..

No adulation; 'tis the death of virtue; Who flatters, is of all mankind the lowest Save he who courts the flattery..

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

There can hardly, I believe, be imagined a more desirable pleasure than that of praise unmixed with any possibility of flattery..

Flattery will get you everywhere," Sam says, "Except, apparently, off a roof..

It is easy to flatter; it is harder to praise..

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

Immitation is the sincerest form of flattery..

We would seldom be deceived by flattery, did our own conceit not promote the delusion..

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

The flatterer easily insinuates himself into the closet, while honest merit stands shivering in the hall or antechamber..

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