“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 makes friends and truth makes enemies.”
Spanish Proverb
“Flattery is telling the other person precisely what he thinks about himself”
Dale Carnegie
“Flattery is like friendship in show, but not in fruit”
Socrates
“I hate careless flattery, the kind that exhausts you in your efforts to believe it”
Wilson Mizner
“Flattery is like chewing gum. Enjoy it but don't swallow it.”
Hank Ketcham
“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
