“The ambitious are forever followed by adulation for they receive the most pleasure from flattery.”
Oliver Goldsmith
“The aim of the liar is simply to charm, to delight, to give pleasure. He is the very basis of civilized society.”
Oscar Wilde
“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 friendship in show, but not in fruit”
Socrates
“Always let your flattery be seen through for what really flatters a man is that you think him worth flattering”
George Bernard Shaw
