184 Quotes About Flattery

But it is hard to know them from friends, they are so obsequious and full of protestations; for a wolf resembles a dog, so doth a flatterer a friend.

Because all men are apt to flatter themselves, to entertain the addition of other men's praises is most perilous.

Flattery is all right if you don't inhale

Nothing is so great an instance of ill-manners as flattery.

Where Young must torture his invention To flatter knaves, or lose his pension.

The encomium of one incapable of flattery is indeed flattering.

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

The world is grown so full of dissimulation and compliment, that men's words are hardly any signification of their thoughts.

Persons who discover a flatterer, do not always disapprove him, because he imagines them considerable enough to deserve his applications.