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Last updated on April 19, 2025.
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.
Love of flattery, in most men, proceeds from the mean opinion they have of themselves; in women, from the contrary.
Flattery is false money, which would not be current were it not for our vanity.
Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver; and adulation is not of more service to the people than to kings.
Flattery is a kind of bad money, to which our vanity gives us currency.
I have always found it interesting... that there are people who regard copyright infringement as a form of flattery.
Flattery's fire is hidden. Its sweet taste is apparent, but the smoke is bound to come out at last.
Few human beings are proof against the implied flattery of rapt attention.
Direct, forceful, energetic. Loves power, eats up publicity and flattery... Can turn on charm at will and knows it.
I am not one of those who left the land to the mercy of its enemies. Their flattery leaves me cold, my songs are not for them to praise.
Love of another is merely empty flattery and self-deception for one who cannot accept himself without pretense.
With imitation being the sincerest form of flattery, I went out there and wanted to be Shawn Michaels 2.
Confidence, as opposed, to modesty and distinguished from decent assurance, proceeds from self-opinion, and is occasioned by ignorance and flattery.
I can spot empty flattery and know exactly where I stand. In the end it's really only my own approval or disapproval that means anything.
It is necessary to the success of flattery, that it be accommodated to particular circumstances or characters, and enter the heart on that side where the passions are ready to receive it.
We love flattery, even though we are not deceived by it, because it shows that we are of importance enough to be courted.
I look at my work and make up my mind about it. After that, neither flattery nor criticism matters to me.
My passport photo is one of the most remarkable photographs I have ever seen- no retouching, no shadows, no flattery-just stark me.
Flattery is like wine, which exhilarates a man for a moment, but usually ends by going to his head and making him act foolishly.
We would seldom be deceived by flattery, did our own conceit not promote the delusion.
Can honor's voice provoke the silent dust, or flattery soothe the dull, cold ear of death?
The man that lays his hand upon a woman, Save in the way of kindness, is a wretch Whom't were gross flattery to name a coward.
What drink'st thou oft, instead of homage sweet, But poisoned flattery?
I know imitation is the highest form of flattery, but stealing one's identity is totally different.
No visor does become black villainy so well as soft and tender flattery.
Nothing says, 'I pay attention to detail!' like footwear flattery from a boy.
Let flattery, the handmaid of the vices, be far removed (from friendship).
[Lat., Assentatio, vitiorum adjutrix, procul amoveatur.]
Flattery, if judiciously administered, is always acceptable, however much we may despise the flatterer.
Flattery was one of Kissinger's principal tools in winning over Nixon, and a tool he employed shamelessly.
Beware of flattery! 'tis a flowery weed,
Which oft offends the very idol-vice,
Whose shrine it would perfume.
Nature has hardly formed a woman ugly enough to be insensible to flattery upon her person.
In my experience, there are two things that no one will admit to: having no sense of humor and being susceptible to flattery.
It is worth thought what kind of mind or condition or disposition is open to flattery; for poison would not be spread if the rats ate it not.
Fearing no insult, asking for no crown, receive with indifference both flattery and slander, and do not argue with a fool.
Whitney: You black-hearted, treacherous, conniving scoundrel. Clayton: Your flattery warms my heart
Flattery has a short battery life, but reminding people they are amazing and precious and wanted and works of art can truly change their lives.
There can hardly, I believe, be imagined a more desirable pleasure than that of praise unmixed with any possibility of flattery.
It is scarcely credible to what degree discernment may be dazzled by the mist of pride, and wisdom infatuated by the intoxication of flattery.
There's a certain balance between finding an opportunity to do what you really enjoy and getting caught up in the flattery of people wanting you to do things.
Never was flattery lost on a poet's ear; a simple race, they waste their toil for the vain tribute of a smile.
Our domestic Napoleons, too many of them, give flattery, bonnets and bracelets to women, and everything else but - justice.
'T is an old maxim in the schools, That flattery 's the food of fools; Yet now and then your men of wit Will condescend to take a bit.
Feel you the barren flattery of a rhyme?
Can poets soothe you, when you pine for bread,
By winding myrtle round your ruin'd shed?
Flattery is a base coin which is current only through our vanity.
If we did not flatter ourselves, the flattery of others could never harm us.
Vanity is truly the motive power that moves humanity, and it is flattery that greases the wheels.
Am I the only person in the world who is shocked and amazed at the ongoing flattery of uebergeek Mark Zuckerberg?
Katherine Kenton remains among the generation of women who feel that the most sincere form of flattery is the male erection.
Hypocrisy can plunge the mind of a man into a dark abyss, when he believes his own self-flattery instead of God's verdict.
No adulation; 'tis the death of virtue; Who flatters, is of all mankind the lowest Save he who courts the flattery.
There is no other way to guard yourself against flattery than by making men understand that telling you the truth will not offend you.
Flattery is often a traffic of mutual meanness, where although both parties intend deception, neither are deceived.
The heart of a woman is never so full of affection that there does not remain a little corner for flattery and love.
I have already settled it for myself so flattery and criticism go down the same drain and I am quite free.
[Samuel] Johnson's conversation was by much too strong for a person accustomed to obsequiousness and flattery; it was mustard in a young child's mouth!
Flattery is no more than what raises in a man's mind an idea of a preference which he has not.
Flattery will get you everywhere," Sam says, "Except, apparently, off a roof.
Flattery in courtship is the highest insolence, for whilst it pretends to bestow on you more than you deserve, it is watching an opportunity to take from you what you really have.
The firmest purpose of a woman's heart to well-timed, artful flattery may yield.
No matter what other nations may say about the United States, immigration is still the sincerest form of flattery.
