“There is a lot to say in her favor, but the other is more interesting.”
Mark Twain
“Do not offer a compliment and ask a favor at the same time. A compliment that is charged for is not valuable.”
“Flattery makes friends and truth makes enemies.”
Spanish Proverb
“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
“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
“Imitation is the highest form of flattery, but clones kind of get it wrong because we are promoting individuality and being proud of being yourself.”
Brian Molko
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