184 Quotes About Flattery

You men tell us we are angels, and say we can make you what we will; but the instant we honestly try to do you good, you laugh at us, and won't listen. which proves how much your flattery is worth.

Cats, like men, are flatterers.

To flatter a young man, tell him that you thought that he was older than he is. To flatter an old woman, tell her that you thought that she was younger than she is.

I don't like compliments and I don't see why a man should think he is pleasing a woman enormously when he says to her a whole heap of things that he doesn't mean.

If a story is w/out flaws or doubts, it is flattery or even brainwashing. You should read it as if drinking a glass of water. But be prepared - you would not remember its taste.

It's love that makes the world go round - otherwise it would be flat.

baloney is flattery so thick it cannot be true; blarney is flatter so thin we like it.

It is extremely difficult not to fake or overdo something on which you have just been complimented.

I feel vaugely that you're paying me a compliment', returned Mrs. Crowley, 'but it's so elusive that I can't quite catch it.''The best compliments are those that flutter about your head like butterflies around a flower.''I much prefer to fix them down on a board with a pin through their insides and a narrow strip of paper to hold down each wing.