A little flattery will support a man through great fatigue.
James Monroe

A woman's flattery may inflate a man's head a little; but her criticism goes straight to his heart, and contracts it so that it can never again hold quite as much love for her.
Helen Rowland

Advertising - a judicious mixture of flattery and threats.
Northrop Frye

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

Between flattery and admiration there often flows a river of contempt.
Minna Antrim

Everyone likes flattery; and when you come to Royalty you should lay it on with a trowel.
Benjamin Disraeli

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

Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.
Edmund Burke

Flattery in courtship is the highest insolence, for whilst it pretends to bestow on you more than you deserve, it is watching an opportunity to take from you what you really have.
Sarah Fielding

Flattery is a kind of bad money, to which our vanity gives us currency.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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

Flattery is like chewing gum. Enjoy it but don't swallow it.
Hank Ketcham

Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt, not swallowed.
Josh Billings

Flattery is the infantry of negotiation.
Lord Chandos

Gossip is what you say about the objects of flattery when they aren't present.
P. J. O'Rourke

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

I can spot empty flattery and know exactly where I stand. In the end it's really only my own approval or disapproval that means anything.
Agnetha Faltskog

I hate careless flattery, the kind that exhausts you in your efforts to believe it.
Wilson Mizner

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.
Kate Chopin

If we did not flatter ourselves, the flattery of others could never harm us.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld