Definition of Flattery

Flattery

The act or practice of flattering; the act of pleasing by artiful commendation or compliments; adulation; false, insincere, or excessive praise.

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Knavery and flattery are blood relations.
Abraham Lincoln

Imitation is the sincerest flattery.
Mahatma Gandhi

Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.
Charles Caleb Colton

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

Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.
Edmund Burke

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

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

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

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

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

Flattery Translations

flattery in Dutch is vleierij
flattery in French is adulation
flattery in Latin is adulatio
flattery in Norwegian is smiger
flattery in Spanish is lisonja
flattery in Swedish is smicker