184 Quotes About Flattery

To be most effective, flattery is always best applied with a trowel.

The Marquis believed himself to be hardened against flattery. He thought that he had experienced every variety, but he discovered that he was mistaken: the blatantly worshipful look in the eyes of a twelve-year-old, anxiously raised to his, was new to him, and it pierced his defences.

We never slam the door on flattery, we nudge it shut like a man rejecting his mistress: if she nudges back, we're delighted – and if she breaks it down, we rejoice.

What would Entertainment Tonight say if they knew you were doing it on your office floor when you have twenty bedrooms?"Slowly he pushed forward, entering her. "They would say, 'That lucky Addison bloke,'" he breathed, '"having sex with the beautiful, gorgeous, funny, brilliant, multi-talented Samantha Jellicoe.

Nothing in the world is harder than candour, and nothing is easier than flattery.

A beautiful woman needs no embellishments. But a prideful man may give them to her nevertheless.

Flattery is the worst and fastest way of showing our esteem

How defenseless we are in the face of flattery!

They soothed him with words of flattery, and they gave him hope—the two traps into which people the world over will always fall.