Top 354 Flattery Quotes & Sayings

Immitation is the sincerest form of flattery.

Flattery is the infantry of negotiation.

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

Flattery will get you everywhere.

What I like is bottomless flattery.

flattery would be worse than vain; there is no consolation in flattery.

Flattery is useful when dealing with youngsters.

It's my uniform. Everyone in my company wears it." "It's hideous." Rose felt her hackles rise. The neon green uniform was hideous, but she didn't appreciate him pointing it out. She opened her mouth. "Yet despite it, you look lovely," he said. "Flattery will get you nowhere," she told him. "It's not flattery," he said coldly. "Flattery requires exaggeration. I'm merely stating a fact. You're a beautiful woman wearing an ugly sack of unnatural color.

Flattery and criticism are always in our profession.

The encomium of one incapable of flattery is indeed flattering.

Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.

At its best, flattery is truth well dressed, and it is best dressed with fine see-through fabrics. Honest flattery can caress a lover, cover up a gaffe, and muffle aggression.

But here's the joy: my friend and I are one, Sweet flattery!

Imitation isn't the sincerest form of flattery - it's plagiarism.

Copying or imitation is the highest form of flattery.

Invitation is the sincerest flattery.

Flattery works like a drug.

The gallantry of the mind consists in agreeable flattery.

Advertising - a judicious mixture of flattery and threats.

After watching the State of the Union address the other night [1994], I'm reminded of the old adage that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. Only in this case, it's not flattery, but grand larceny: the intellectual theft of ideas that you and I recognize as our own. Speech delivery counts for little on the world stage unless you have convictions, and, yes, the vision to see beyond the front row seats.

Imitation is always insult--not flattery.

A little flattery goes a long way.

They say one of the greatest forms of flattery is for your son to follow in your footsteps. And so I enjoy that greatest form of flattery, without a doubt.

We must define flattery and praise; they are distinct. Trajan was encouraged to virtue by the panegyric Pliny; Tiberius became obstinate in vice from the flattery of his senators.

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.

Baloney is flattery laid on so thick it cannot be true, and blarney is flattery so thin we love it.

Imitation is the highest form of flattery.

There is flattery in friendship.

Imitation is flattery

Flattery makes fools of the best of us.

Imitation is the sincerest of flattery.

Imitation is the sincerest flattery.

Flattery leads to vulgarity; the flatterer is despised.

Flattery has to overcome my mistrust, and it does.

Flattery'll get you anywhere.

Flattery is like friendship in show, but not in fruit.

Flattery is praise without foundation.

Knavery and flattery are blood relations.

Flattery, if judiciously administered, is always acceptable.

Immigration is the sincerest form of flattery.

It is possible to be below flattery as well as above it.

Flattery was formerly a vice; it has now become the fashion.

The most sincere form of flattery is money.

Complimenting someone in an exaggerated way is known as flattery, and flattery will generally get you anything you want.

If solitude deprives of the benefit of advice, it also excludes from the mischief of flattery. But the absence of others' applause is generally supplied by the flattery of one's own breast.

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

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

Imitation is obviously a great form of flattery.

Let flattery, the handmaid of the vices, be far removed .

There is nothing in the world more difficult than candor, and nothing easier than flattery. If there is a hundredth of a fraction of a false note to candor, it immediately produces dissonance, and as a result, exposure. But in flattery, even if everything is false down to the last note, it is still pleasant, and people will listen not without pleasure; with coarse pleasure, perhaps, but pleasure nevertheless.

Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.

Attention is a silent and perpetual flattery.

Implementation is the sincerest form of flattery.

Flattery, the dangerous nurse of vice.

Flattery labors under the odious charge of servility.

Sheer flattery got me into the theater. Flattery always works with me, particularly the flattery of women.

Young children are unlikely to have their self-esteem strengthened from excessive praise or flattery. On the contrary, it may raise some doubts in children; many children can see through flattery and may even dismiss an adult who heaps on praise as a poor source of support-one who is not very believable.

Flattery is a juggler, and no kin unto sincerity.

Flattery won't hurt you if you don't swallow it.

What valor cannot win, flattery may.