Top Flattery Quotes
Advertising - a judicious mixture of flattery and threats.
Northrop Frye
The flattery of posterity is not worth much more than contemporary flattery, which is worth nothing.
Jorge Luis Borges
We should keep silent about those in power; to speak well of them almost implies flattery; to speak ill of them while they are alive is dangerous, and when they are dead is cowardly.
Jean de la Bruyere
None are more taken in by flattery than the proud, who wish to be the first and are not.
Baruch Spinoza
Said I was beautiful, did he? He's being paid for treatment, not flattery.
Lillie Langtry
Baruch Spinoza 
Chantal Kreviazuk 
Fulton J. Sheen 
Agnetha Faltskog 
Joyce Brothers 
Carroll O'Connor 
Edith Sitwell 
James Monroe All Flattery Quotes
Advertising - a judicious mixture of flattery and threats.
Northrop Frye 
63% of people like this quote
The flattery of posterity is not worth much more than contemporary flattery, which is worth nothing.
Jorge Luis Borges
63% of people like this quote
We should keep silent about those in power; to speak well of them almost implies flattery; to speak ill of them while they are alive is dangerous, and when they are dead is cowardly.
Jean de la Bruyere
59% of people like this quote
None are more taken in by flattery than the proud, who wish to be the first and are not.
Baruch Spinoza
58% of people like this quote
Said I was beautiful, did he? He's being paid for treatment, not flattery.
Lillie Langtry
58% of people like this quote
The love of one's own sex is precious, for it is neither provoked by vanity nor retained by flattery; it is genuine and sincere.
Maria Mitchell
57% of people like this quote
Imitation is flattery, and The Hills Have Eyes is a classic.
Michael Berryman
56% of people like this quote
Flattery is like chewing gum. Enjoy it but don't swallow it.
Hank Ketcham
55% of people like this quote
To ask advice is in nine cases out of ten to tout for flattery.
John Churton Collins
55% of people like this quote
I hate careless flattery, the kind that exhausts you in your efforts to believe it.
Wilson Mizner
55% of people like this quote
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Francois de La RochefoucauldMason CooleyMohandas GandhiBenjamin DisraeliAbraham LincolnEdmund BurkeCharles Caleb ColtonJosh BillingsAdlai E. StevensonGeorg C. LichtenbergJonathan SwiftJean de la BruyereHelen RowlandP. J. O'RourkeBaruch Spinoza
Wilson MiznerMaria MitchellJorge Luis BorgesLillie LangtryJack VanceCarroll O'ConnorChantal KreviazukJames MonroeMinna AntrimJoyce BrothersBrian MolkoKate ChopinEdith SitwellAgnetha FaltskogFulton J. Sheen
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