Best Quotes about Flattery
Flatter not thyself in thy faith in God if thou hast not charity for thy neighbor.
Quarles, Francis
Flattery makes friends and truth makes enemies.
Proverb, Spanish
The more we love our friends, the less we flatter them; it is by excusing nothing that pure love shows itself.
Moliere
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.
Raleigh, Sir Walter
Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt, not swallowed.
Billings, Josh
We swallow with one gulp the lie that flatters us, and drink drop by drop the truth which is bitter to us.
Diderot, Denis
I cannot think of any character below the flatterer, except he who envies him.
Steele, Sir Richard
To make a man perfectly happy tell him he works too hard, that he spends too much money, that he is misunderstood or that he is different; none of this is necessarily complimentary, but it will flatter him infinitely more that merely telling him that he is brilliant, or noble, or wise, or good.
Rowland, Helen
Every flatterer lives at the expense of him who listens to him.
La Fontaine, Jean De
None are more taken in by flattery than the proud, who wish to be the first and are not.
Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)
He who says he hates every kind of flattery, and says it in earnest, certainly does not yet know every kind of flattery.
Lichtenberg, Georg C.
If we did not flatter ourselves the flattery from others would not harm us.
Proverb
Nothing flatters a man as much as the happiness of his wife; he is always proud of himself as the source of it.
Johnson, Samuel
Many lick before they bite.
Proverb
Don't flatter the rich, or appear to willing before the great.
Kempis, Thomas
The coin that is most current among mankind is flattery: the only benefit of which is that by hearing what we are not, we may be instructed on what to become.
He that flatters you more than you desire either has deceived you or wishes to deceive.
Proverb, Italian
Baloney is flattery laid on so thick it cannot be true, and blarney is flattery so thin we love it.
Sheen, Fulton John
Between flattery and admiration there often flows a river of contempt.
Antrim, Minna
Self-love is the greatest of all flatterers.
La Rochefoucauld, Francois De
A flatterer is one who says things to your face that he wouldn't say behind your back.
Flattery is all right if you don't inhale.
Stevenson, Adlai E.
He that loves to be flattered is worthy of the flatterer.
Shakespeare, William
A fool flatters himself, a wise man flatters the fool.
Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.
Flattery is a form of hatred.
Bible
Look closely at those who patronize you. Half are unfeeling, half untaught.
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von
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