Quotes by Flattery Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver. Edmund Burke flatteringflatterygiver Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver; and adulation is not of more service to the people than to kings. Edmund Burke flatterykingspeople When the world frowns, we can face it; but let it smile, and we are undone. Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton flatteryfacesworld Flattery is a foolish suicide; she destroys herself with her own hands. Edward Gibbon flatterysuicidehands Flattery is praise without foundation. Eliza Leslie flatteryfoundationpraise Our domestic Napoleons, too many of them, give flattery, bonnets and bracelets to women, and everything else but - justice. Fanny Fern flatteryjusticegiving You can stroke people with words. F. Scott Fitzgerald flatterywritingpeople Gallantry of mind consists in saying flattering things in an agreeable manner. Francois de La Rochefoucauld gallantryflatterymind If we did not flatter ourselves, the flattery of others could never harm us. Francois de La Rochefoucauld flatteryharmifs Imitation is always insult--not flattery. Frank Lloyd Wright insultflatteryimitation Flee flattery, false praise and fair weather friends Fraser Young flatterypraiseweather Flattery is false money, which would not be current were it not for our vanity. Francois de La Rochefoucauld flatteryvanitycurrents If we never flattered ourselves we should have but scant pleasure. Francois de La Rochefoucauld flatterypleasureshould-have The gallantry of the mind consists in agreeable flattery. Francois de La Rochefoucauld gallantryflatterymind Flattery is a base coin which is current only through our vanity. Francois de La Rochefoucauld flatteryvanitycoins We sometimes imagine we hate flattery, but we only hate the way we are flattered. Francois de La Rochefoucauld flatteryhateway Praise is flattery, artful, hidden, delicate, which gratifies differently him who praises and him who is praised. The one takes it as the reward of merit, the other bestows it to show his impartiality and knowledge. Francois de La Rochefoucauld flatterymeritrewards Imitation is not just the sincerest form of flattery - it's the sincerest form of learning. George Bernard Shaw flatteryimitationlearning He who says he hates every kind of flattery, and says it in earnest, certainly does not yet know every kind of flattery. Georg C. Lichtenberg flatteryhatedoe I have already settled it for myself so flattery and criticism go down the same drain and I am quite free. Georgia O'Keeffe drainsflatterycriticism«1234567891011»
