Definition of Flattery

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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. Related Definitions: Act, Adulation, By, Commendation, Excessive, False, Flattering, Insincere, Of, Or, Pleasing, Practice, Praise, The

Flattery Quotations

Knavery and flattery are blood relations.
Abraham Lincoln

Imitation is the sincerest flattery.
Mohandas Gandhi

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

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

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

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

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

Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.
Edmund Burke

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

Immigration is the sincerest form of flattery.
Jack Paar

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

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