Flattery Quotes

Knavery and flattery are blood relations.
Abraham Lincoln

Blood, Relations

Imitation is the sincerest flattery.
Mahatma Gandhi

Imitation, Sincerest

Flattery Quote

Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.
Charles Caleb Colton

Imitation, Sincerest

Imitation is the highest form of flattery, but clones kind of get it wrong because we are promoting individuality and being proud of being yourself.
Brian Molko

Yourself, Wrong, Proud

Sheer flattery got me into the theater. Flattery always works with me, particularly the flattery of women.
Carroll O'Connor

Women, Works, Theater

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

Money, Bad, Vanity

Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.
Edmund Burke

Both, Corrupts, Giver

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

Others, Ourselves, Harm

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

Gossip, Present, Objects

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

Everyone, Likes, Royalty

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

Love, Heart, Woman

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

Water, Cologne, Swallowed

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

Same, Question, Insults

Nothing is so great an example of bad manners as flattery. If you flatter all the company, you please none; If you flatter only one or two, you offend the rest.
Jonathan Swift

Great, Bad, Nothing

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

Hate, Careless, Efforts

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

The best form of flattery is to be admired, imitated or respected. I've always felt proud our fans look up to us or feel we are inspirational.
Cheryl James

Best, Proud, Felt

We should keep silent about those in power; to speak well of them almost implies flattery; to speak ill of them while they are alive is dangerous, and when they are dead is cowardly.
Jean de la Bruyere

Power, Keep, Speak

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

Love, True, Cannot

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

Enjoy, Gum, Swallow

Listening, not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery.
Joyce Brothers

May, Listening, Imitation

A president aiming for 'Great' or 'Near Great' status must do more. He must give lots of interviews, make records accessible, and heap the flattery on academia - each of which Mr. Bush has signally failed to do.
Thomas Frank

Great, Give, President

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

Says, Hates, Earnest

None are more taken in by flattery than the proud, who wish to be the first and are not.
Baruch Spinoza

Wish, Proud, Taken

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

Between, Often, Admiration

Said I was beautiful, did he? He's being paid for treatment, not flattery.
Lillie Langtry

Beautiful, Said, Paid

The flattery of posterity is not worth much more than contemporary flattery, which is worth nothing.
Jorge Luis Borges

Nothing, Worth, Posterity

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

Great, Through, Support

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

Deserve, Watching, Highest

The aim of flattery is to soothe and encourage us by assuring us of the truth of an opinion we have already formed about ourselves.
Edith Sitwell

Truth, Opinion, Ourselves

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