“My passport photo is one of the most remarkable photographs I have ever seen - no retouching, no shadows, no flattery - just stark me”
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
“Flattery makes friends and truth makes enemies.”
Spanish Proverb
“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 telling the other person precisely what he thinks about himself”
Dale Carnegie
“Always let your flattery be seen through for what really flatters a man is that you think him worth flattering”
George Bernard Shaw
“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
“Flattery is like friendship in show, but not in fruit”
Socrates
