Quotes on Flattery

The girl was grateful to the young man for every bit of flattery; she wanted to linger for a moment in its warmth and so she said, 'You're very good at lying.' 'Do I look like a liar?' 'You look like you enjoy lying to women,' said the girl, and into her words there crept unawares a touch of the old anxiety, because she really did believe that her young man enjoyed lying to women.

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

We can often do more for other men by trying to correct our own faults than by trying to correct theirs.

He who says he hates every kind of flattery, and says it in earnest, certainly does not yet know every kind of flattery.

Of all wild beasts preserve me from a tyrant; and of all tame a flatterer.

Dogs live with man as courtiers 'round a monarch, steeped in the flattery of his notice ... to push their favor in this world of pickings and caresses is, perhaps, the business of their lives.

Avoid flatterers, for they are thieves in disguise.

What really flatters a man is that you think him worth flattering.

A compliment is something like a kiss through a veil.

Sometimes, idealistic people are put off the whole business of networking as something tainted by flattery and the pursuit of selfish advantage. But virtue in obscurity is rewarded only in Heaven. To succeed in this world you have to be known to people.

In short, no association or alliance can be happy or stable without me. People can't long tolerate a ruler, nor can a master his servant, a maid her mistress, a teacher his pupil, a friend his friend nor a wife her husband, a landlord his tenant, a soldier his comrade nor a party-goer his companion, unless they sometimes have illusions about each other, make use of flattery, and have the sense to turn a blind eye and sweeten life for themselves with the honey of folly.

Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being.

I trust it will not be giving away professional secrets to say that many readers would be surprised, perhaps shocked, at the questions which some newspaper editors will put to a defenseless woman under the guise of flattery.

Flattery is all right so long as you don't inhale.

But it is hard to know them from friends, they are so obsequious and full of protestations; for a wolf resembles a dog, so doth a flatterer a friend.

Baloney is flattery laid on so thick it cannot be true, and blarney is flattery so thin we love it.

We love flattery, even though we are not deceived by it, because it shows that we are of importance enough to be courted.

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

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

What drink'st thou oft, instead of homage sweet, But poisoned flattery?

Take no repulse, whatever she doth say; For 'get you gone,' she doth not mean 'away.' Flatter and praise, commend, extol their graces; Though ne'er so black, say they have angels' faces