Flatter Quotes

He that flatters you more than you desire either has deceived you or wishes to deceive.

Flattery makes friends and truth makes enemies.

Nothing flatters a man as much as the happiness of his wife;

he is always proud of himself as the source of it.

A fool flatters himself, a wise man flatters the fool.

When your friends begin to flatter you on how young you look, it's a sure sign you're getting old.

Many know how to flatter, few know how to praise.

The more we love our friends, the less we flatter them;

it is by excusing nothing that pure love shows itself.

Nothing in this world is harder than speaking the truth, nothing easier than flattery.

Self-love is the greatest of all flatterers.

He does me double wrongThat wounds me with the flatteries of his tongue.

Look closely at those who patronize you. Half are unfeeling, half untaught.

What really flatters a man is that you think him worth flattering.

A fool flatters himself, a wise man flatters the fool.

Many lick before they bite.

Imitation is obviously a great form of flattery.

Flattery is a form of hatred.

Flatterers look like friends, as wolves like dogs.

A flatterer is one who says things to your face that he wouldn't say behind your back.

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

Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.

When the flatterer pipes, then the devil dances.

He who knows how to flatter also knows how to slander.

We swallow with one gulp the lie that flatters us, and drink drop by drop the truth which is bitter to us.

Just praise is only a debt, but flattery is a present.

Every flatterer lives at the expense of him who listens to him.

Flatter not thyself in thy faith in God if thou hast not charity for thy neighbor.

I will praise any man that will praise me.

Some men break your heart in two, Some men fawn and flatter, Some men never look at you; And that cleans up the matter.

In politics, yesterday's lie is attacked only to flatter today's.

Mathematicians may flatter themselves that they possess new ideas which mere human language is as yet unable to express.

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

I would rather hear the pleased laugh of a child over some feature of my exhibition than receive as I did the flattering compliments of the Prince of Wales.

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

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

Flattery is all right if you don't inhale.

What valor cannot win, flattery may.

People may flatter themselves just as much by thinking that their faults are always present to other people's minds, as if they believe that the world is always contemplating their individual charms and virtues.

It is simpler and easier to flatter people than to praise them.

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

Imitation is the sincerest flattery.

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

I always looked to about thirty as the barrier of any real or fierce delight in the passions, and determined to work them out in the younger ore and better veins of the mine --and I flatter myself (perhaps) that I have pretty well done so --and now the dross is coming.

The society of dead authors has this advantage over that of the living: they never flatter us to our faces, nor slander us behind our backs, nor intrude upon our privacy, nor quit their shelves until we take them down.

The conquest of the earth, which mostly means the taking it away from those who have a different complexion or slightly flatter noses than ourselves, is not a pretty thing when you look into it.

The fairytale is irresponsible; it is frankly imaginary, and its purpose is to gratify wishes, as a dream does flatter.

If we did not flatter ourselves the flattery from others would not harm us.

The reason that adulation is not displeasing is that, though untrue, it shows one to be of consequence enough, in one way or other, to induce people to lie.

Women who are either indisputably beautiful, or indisputably ugly, are best flattered upon the score of their understandings; but those who are in a state of mediocrity are best flattered upon their beauty, or at least their graces: for every woman who is not absolutely ugly, thinks herself handsome.

. . . although a skilful flatterer is a most delightful companion, if you can keep him all to yourself, his taste becomes very doubtful when he takes to complimenting other people.

For lack of a better term, they've labeled me a sex symbol.

It's flattering and it should happen to every bald, overweight guy.

Don't flatter the rich, or appear to willing before the great.

He who says he hates every kind of flattery, and says it in earnest, certainly does not yet know every kind of flattery.