184 Quotes About Flattery

It was napoleon who once observed how easy it is to win men over through flattery simply by bequeathing a title to them or pinning a metal or token on their chest.

People generally despise where they flatter.

Truth and ceremony are two things.

People generally despise where they flatter, and cringe to those they would gladly overtop; so that truth and ceremony are two things.

Tell me a private school that won?t take somebody outside their parish. Jealousy is the greatest form of flattery and that?s about it. Maybe this is being paranoid, but we?re a small town, and what irritates me is if (Mayo and Walker) went to a bigger, private school, we?d be seeing headlines about how great this is.

Flattery will get you everywhere," Sam says, "Except, apparently, off a roof.

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

Imitation is the sincerest of flattery.

Imitation is the highest form of flattery.