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Flattery Quotes

Flattery Definition  
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Imitation is flattery, and The Hills Have Eyes is a classic.
Michael Berryman

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

Imitation is the sincerest flattery.
Mohandas Gandhi

Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.
Charles Caleb Colton

Immigration is the sincerest form of flattery.
Jack Paar

Knavery and flattery are blood relations.
Abraham Lincoln

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

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

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

One may define flattery as a base companionship which is most advantageous to the flatterer.
Theophrastus

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

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

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

The flattery is nice, but awards don't add up to writing quality songs.
Chantal Kreviazuk

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

The love of one's own sex is precious, for it is neither provoked by vanity nor retained by flattery; it is genuine and sincere.
Maria Mitchell

This flattery has been rather slow in coming. I think all of sudden late in life now I'm getting some credit for what I've done. Which is gratifying, but it's kind of a little late.
Jack Vance

To ask advice is in nine cases out of ten to tout for flattery.
John Churton Collins

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

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