Flattery Quotes

The fact that people are actually shaving their eyebrows is very flattering. But it’s crazy that people are singing songs I wrote in my bedroom.

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

Learn that every flatterer Lives at the flattered listeners cost.

Flatterers are the worst kind of enemies. [Lat., Pessimum genus inimicorum laudantes.]

Say not unto thyself, Behold, truth breedeth hatred, and I will avoid it; dissimulation raiseth friends, and I will follow it. Are not the enemies made by truth, better than the friends obtained by flattery?

Flattery is a kind of bad money, to which our vanity gives us currency.

Of all wild beasts preserve me from a tyrant; and of all tame a flatterer.

Some folks pay a compliment like they went down in their pocket for it.

I can spot empty flattery and know exactly where I stand. In the end it’s really only my own approval or disapproval that means anything.

The most skillful flattery is to let a person talk on, and be a listener.