“To ask advice is in nine cases out of ten to tout for flattery”
John Churton Collins
“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
“Listening, not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery.”
Dr. Joyce Brothers
“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 chewing gum. Enjoy it but don't swallow it.”
Hank Ketcham
