Flattery Quotes

"My passport photo is one of the most remarkable photographs I have ever seen -- no retouching, no shadows, no flattery -- just stark me."
-Anne Morrow Lindbergh

"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

"Flattery makes friends and truth makes enemies."
-Spanish Proverb

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

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

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

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

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

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

"We created this segment, ... Flattery is very nice - all these other people have come after us. - We said let's see what they are doing and see if we can adapt some things."
-Allen Bernstein

"It is possible to be below flattery as well as above it."
-Thomas Babington Macaulay

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

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