Flattery Quotes

When you're appeasing too much, you might be egotistically over-estimating everyone's need for your approval.

~ Criss Jami

aphorism 129:I would have every thought stoop and touch the Earth but that I already know the impossibility of the effort. A thought seems to have a life of its own and would rather leave itself open to flattering interpretations.

~ Matt Berry

Assuming what people want is about as controlled as using fireworks to start a fire.

~ Criss Jami

Misguided good men are more dangerous than honest bad men. It is because they are seen as good that, in and by good conscience, the mob will always, stubbornly back them without question.

~ Criss Jami

What separates us into engineers and robots, puppeteers and puppets, kings and pawns, is not the status we hold at any given time among others - status is irrelevant; it is the level of ever-present awareness we have of a grey-matter tailor's tools [of flattery, persuasion, and cunning.]

~ A.j. Darkholme

But unlike Jack, Bobby had not been groomed to be a candidate, and he was constitutionally incapable of the flattery and false praise with which politicians like Johnson got others to do their daily bidding.

~ Jonathan Darman

The trouble with most of us is that we'd rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.

~ Norman Vincent Peale

In every reign there comes one night of greatest blackness, when a King must send away his court of flatterers and servants, and sit alone in the dark with the beast called truth.In the gloom of the grand hall, Slately could hear it breathe.Truth at court was treated as if it were a precious commodity. It was hoarded, coveted, bartered for. Certainly this analogy applied to lies; his courtiers accepted his lies as currency of the realm. He handed them lies in large denominations, and they returned him his change in small ones.Oh, but truth was something different. Something alive and immortal. By light of day it was only a little butterfly: pretty, elusive, easily crushed, and utterly unable to defend itself. Most nights, too, it slept harmlessly. One could wave it away for a very long time.But on the nights it did not sleep, neither did the King.

~ Rob Balder

Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, but theft is a sin.

~ Elena

Every sexual sin begins with flattery.

~ Sunday Adelaja

If a story is w/out flaws or doubts, it is flattery or even brainwashing. You should read it as if drinking a glass of water. But be prepared - you would not remember its taste.

~ Vinko Vrbanic

I do not know whether anyone has ever succeeded in not enjoying praise. And, if he enjoys it, he naturally wants to receive it. And if he wants to receive it, he cannot help but being distraught at losing it. Those who are in love with applause have their spirits starved not only when they are blamed off-hand, but even when they fail to be constantly praised.

~ John Chrysostom

I'll read enoughWhen I do see the very book indeedWhere all my sins are writ, and that's myself.Give me that glass and therein will I read.No deeper wrinkles yet? Hath sorrow struckSo many blows upon this face of mineAnd made no deeper wounds?O flattering glass,Like to my followers in prosperityThou dost beguile me!

~ William Shakespeare

Nice words and nice appearance doesn't conclude that someone is nice, i believe that the nicer you look, the more deceptive you appear.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

To flatter a young man, tell him that you thought that he was older than he is. To flatter an old woman, tell her that you thought that she was younger than she is.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Imitation is the highest form of flattery. Try not to see it as an invitation to compete.

~ Andrena Sawyer

He stepped down, avoiding any long look at her as one avoids long looks at the sun, but seeing her as one sees the sun, without looking.

~ Leo Tolstoy

There really is no sense in pretending to be normal. Just be you because the moment you do, weirder things happen. Crazy comes back into fashion and every woman has to go out and find her some.

~ Shannon L. Alder

What Melanie did was no more than all Southern girls were taught to do: to make those about them feel at ease and pleased with themselves. It was this happy feminine conspiracy which made Southern society so pleasant. Women knew that a land in which men were contented, uncontradicted, and safe in possession of unpunctured vanity was likely to be a very pleasant place for women to live. So from the cradle to the grave, women strove to make men pleased with themselves, and the satisfied men repaid lavishly with gallantry and adoration. In fact, men willingly gave the ladies everything in the world, except credit for having intelligence.Scarlett exercised the same charms as Melanie but with a studied artistry and consummate skill. The difference between the two girls lay in the fact that Melanie spoke kind and flattering words from a desire to make people happy, if only temporarily, and Scarlett never did it except to further her own aims.

~ Margaret Mitchell

The difference between appreciation and flattery? That is simple. One is sincere and the other insincere. One comes from the heart out, the other from the teeth out. One is unselfish, the other selfish. One is universally admired, the other universally condemned.

~ Dale Carnegie

He flattered himself on being a man without any prejudices, and his pretension itself is a very great prejudice.

~ Anatole France

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

~ Joyce Brothers

The thought that is billed at the price of fear and flattery is as inconsolable as that which is paid for at the price of gold. - On Fear and Thought.

~ Lamine Pearlheart

Heart-stopping envy is the sincerest form of flattery.

~ Anna Godbersen

A rich man's joke is always funny.

~ Thomas Edward Brown

Be advised that all flatterers live at the expense of those who listen to them.

~ Jean De La Fontaine

In lapidary inscriptions a man is not upon oath.

~ Samuel Johnson

Let us now praise famous men and our fathers that begat us.

~ Bible

Nobody roots for Goliath.

~ Wilt Chamberlain

Self-praise is no recommendation.

~ Old Saying

Among the smaller duties in life I hardly know any one more important than that of not praising when praise is not due.

~ Sydney Smith

Praise to the undeserving is severe satire.

~ Benjamin Franklin

It's pleasant to hear these nice words while I'm still alive. I'd rather have the taffy than the epitaphy.

~ Chauncey Depew

Commendation n: the tribute that we pay to achievements that resemble but do not equal our own.

~ Ambrose Bierce

Applause is the spur of noble minds the end and aim of weak ones.

~ Charles Caleb Colton

The meanest most contemptible kind of praise is that which first speaks well of a man and then qualifies it with a 'but'.

~ Henry Ward Beecher

He who gladly does without the praise of the crowd will not miss the opportunity of becoming his own fan.

~ Karl Kraus

Flattery is all right - if you don't inhale.

~ Adlai Stevenson

The advantage of doing one's praising to oneself is that one can lay it on so thick and exactly in the right places.

~ Samuel Butler

Some praise at morning what they blame at night.

~ Alexander Pope