“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.”
Agnetha Faltskog
“Approve not of him who commends all you say”
Benjamin Franklin
“Flattery makes friends and truth makes enemies.”
Spanish Proverb
“Flattery is telling the other person precisely what he thinks about himself”
Dale Carnegie
“I once had a rose named after me and I was very flattered. But I was not pleased to read the description in the catalogue: no good in a bed, but fine up against a wall.”
Eleanor Roosevelt
“Always let your flattery be seen through for what really flatters a man is that you think him worth flattering”
George Bernard Shaw
“A woman's flattery may inflate a man's head a little; but her criticism goes straight to his heart, and contracts it so that it can never again hold quite as much love for her”
Helen Rowland
