(86 quotes found)
“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
“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
“I hate careless flattery, the kind that exhausts you in your efforts to believe it”
Wilson Mizner
“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
“Flattery is telling the other person precisely what he thinks about himself”
Dale Carnegie
“Flattery is all right so long as you don't inhale.”
Adlai E. Stevenson
“Imitation is the highest form of flattery, but clones kind of get it wrong because we are promoting individuality and being proud of being yourself.”
Brian Molko
“I can spot empty flattery and know exactly where I stand. In the end it's really only my own approval or disapproval that means anything.”
Agnetha Faltskog
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