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Flattery is so necessary to us that we flatter one another just to be flattered in return.

Marjorie Bowen

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Marjorie Bowen
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November 1, 1885 - December 23, 1952

Never permit yourself to indulge in cheap flattery, which often times means to merely satisfy the individuals vanity and sometimes to ingratiate the flatter into the good graces of the flattered.

Harold B. Lee

They do not abuse the king that flatter him. For flattery is the bellows blows up sin; The thing the which is flattered, but a spark To which that blast gives heat and stronger glowing.

William Shakespeare

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

If we did not flatter ourselves, the flattery of others could never harm us.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

In the best, the friendliest and simplest relations flattery or praise is necessary, just as grease is necessary to keep wheels turning.

Leo Tolstoy

He that is much flattered soon learns to flatter himself.

Samuel Johnson

Money is the sincerest of all flattery. Women love to be flattered. So do men.

Robert A. Heinlein

The world is a king, and like a king, desires flattery in return for favor; but true art is selfish and perverse — it will not submit to the mold of flattery.

Ludwig van Beethoven

If imitation is the greatest form of flattery, Punk, don't flatter me.

J-Ro

To flatter and follow others, without being flattered and followed in turn, is but a state of half enjoyment.

Jane Austen

Adroit observers will find that some who affect to dislike flattery, may yet be flattered indirectly, by a well seasoned abuse and ridicule of their rivals.

Charles Caleb Colton

We sometimes imagine we hate flattery, but we only hate the way we are flattered.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

No man of high and generous spirit is ever willing to indulge in flattery; the good may feel affection for others, but will not flatter them.

Aristotle

Some indeed there are who profess to despise all flattery, but even these are nevertheless to be flattered, by being told that they do despise it.

Charles Caleb Colton

Madam, before you flatter a man so grossly to his face, you should consider whether or not your flattery is worth his having.

Samuel Johnson

Compliments and flattery oftenest excite my contempt by the pretension they imply; for who is he that assumes to flatter me? To compliment often implies an assumption of superiority in the complimenter. It is, in fact, a subtle detraction.

Henry David Thoreau

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