| Author |
Quotes |
| Abraham Lincoln | Knavery and flattery are blood relations. |
| Adlai E Stevenson | Flattery is all right if you don't inhale. |
| Alexander Pope | By flatterers besieged And so obliging that he ne'er obliged. |
| Antisthenes | It is better to fall among crows than flatterers; for those devour only the dead--these the living. |
| Benedict Spinoza | None are more taken in with flattery than the proud, who wish to be the first and are not. |
| Anonymous | If you can't love, learn how to flatter. |
| Alexander Pope | By flatterers besieged And so obliging that he ne'er obliged. |
| Charles Caleb Colton | Imitation is the sincerest of flattery. |
| Dale Carnegie | Flattery is from the teeth out. Sincere appreciation is from the heart out. |
| Francois De La Rochefoucauld | We sometimes imagine we hate flattery, but we only hate the way we are flattered. |
| Frank Moore Colby | Nobody can describe a fool to the life, without much patient self-inspection. |
| George Bernard Shaw | What really flatters a man is that you think him worth flattering. |
| George Bernard Shaw | Always let your flattery be seen through for what really flatters a man is that you think him worth flattering. |
| George Chapman | Young men think old men are fools, but old men know young men are fools. |
| Hannah More | No adulation; 'tis the death of virtue; Who flatters, is of all mankind the lowest Save he who courts the flattery. |
| Jean Paul Richter | It is easier and handier for men to flatter than to praise. |
| Jean Paul Richter | It is easy to flatter; it is harder to praise. |
| Jonathan Swift | 'Tis an old maxim in the schools, That flattery's the food of fools; Yet now and then your men of wit Will condescend to take a bit. |
| Jonathan Swift | Where Young must torture his invention To flatter knaves, or lose his pension. |
| Josh Billings | Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt of, not swallowed. |
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