“I hate careless flattery, the kind that exhausts you in your efforts to believe it”
Wilson Mizner
“Baloney is the unvarnished lie laid on so thick you hate it. Blarney is flattery laid on so thin you love it.”
Fulton J. Sheen
“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
“Flattery is like chewing gum. Enjoy it but don't swallow it.”
Hank Ketcham
“The aim of flattery is to soothe and encourage us by assuring us of the truth of an opinion we have already formed about ourselves.”
Dame Edith Sitwell
