Top 272 Flatter Quotes & Sayings

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

Taxes should be lower, flatter, and simpler, in that order.

And wrinkles, the damned democrats, won't flatter.

People flatter us because they can depend upon our credulity.

Flatter me, but delicately, please, for I am fastidious.

A dog will flatter you but you have to flatter the cat.

Living in Hollywood, it's easy to have someone flatter you. That doesn't help me.

People generally despise where they flatter.

Were I to flatter myself with the possibility of success in such combat, it would indeed be presumption.

I had to give it him, to flatter and insult a woman in one propostition took talent.

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

It is easy to flatter; it is harder to praise.

Music's golden tongue Flatter'd to tears this aged man and poor.

If any man flatters me, I'll flatter him again; tho' he were my best Friend.

Inexperienced girls flatter themselves with the notion that it is in their power to make a man happy.

I don't flatter myself - I'm not a scientist, I'm not a conservation expert.

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

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

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

Let those flatter who fear; it is not an American art .

They say that if the Swiss had designed these mountains they'd be rather flatter.

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

Revile those who flatter you.

I don't like writing for myself to sing. I prefer to have other people's voices to dispose of in some way that they'll like or not like or flatter them or not flatter them. It's fun.

Flatter yourself critically.

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.

The angle we give the bathroom mirror is always meant to flatter.

Mankind naturally and generally love to be flatter'd.

The approval of a cat cannot but flatter the recipient.

I flatter myself [we] have in this country extinguished forever the ambitious hope of making laws for the human mind.

He who cannot love must learn to flatter.

Oh, flatter me; for love delights in praises.

Not to flatter myself, but I know that you can influence people's opinion as a musician, and I don't want to.

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

He that is much flattered soon learns to flatter himself.

Beware of feedback from friends whose judgments could be tainted by feelings of envy or the need to flatter.

To pray to God is to flatter oneself that with words one can alter nature.

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

To laugh, to lie, to flatter, to face: Four ways in court to win man's grace.

Not all who discharge their debts of gratitude should flatter themselves that they are grateful.

Do not flatter yourselves: if you go to places of worship merely to look about you or to hear music, you are not worshipping God.

The flatter the corporate hierarchy, the more likely it is that employees will communicate bad news and act upon it.

Do not flatter yourselves with the belief that a mere recital of that celebrated verse in St. John makes a man a Christian.

I don't call you handsome, sir, though I love you most dearly: far too dearly to flatter you. Don't flatter me.

The rich man despises those who flatter him too much, and hates those who do not flatter him at all.

If you followed this economic crisis and you do not think that the world is getting flatter, you are not paying attention. We saw the entire global economy at one time acting totally in sync. The real truth is the world is even flatter than I thought. Our mortgage crisis is killing Deutsche Bank. You still don't think the world is flat?

When people flatter you constantly it is very tempting to think you deserve it.

A flatterer never seems absurd: The flatter'd always takes his word.

Gourmandise is an impassioned, rational, and habitual preference for all objects which flatter the sense of taste.

You flatter me shamelessly. I like it. Good.

Blessed is he who has learned to admire but not envy, to follow but not imitate, to praise but not flatter, and to lead but not manipulate.

I keep going over a sentence. I nag it, gnaw it, pat and flatter it.

We deceive and flatter no one by such delicate artificies as we do our own selves.

I don't care how stylish something is if it doesn't flatter me.

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

Everything Trump said and did was framed in a way to flatter him, and more importantly, flatter his worldview.

He who can not learn to love must flatter.

To me, there are four F's in a good tax system: it ought to be flatter, fairer, finite and family-friendly.

It is easier and handier for men to flatter than to praise.

I see this evident, that we willingly accord to piety only the services that flatter our passions.