(95 quotes found)
“Immigration is the sincerest form of flattery”
Jack Paar
“But what is the good of friendship if one cannot say exactly what one means? Anybody can say charming things and try to please and to flatter, but a true friend always says unpleasant things, and does not mind giving pain. Indeed, if he is a really true friend he prefers it, for he knows that then he is doing good.”
Oscar Wilde
“We love flattery, even though we are not deceived by it, because it shows that we are of importance enough to be courted”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Nature has hardly formed a woman ugly enough to be insensible to flattery upon her person”
Lord Chesterfield
“What signifies protesting so against flattery! when a person speaks well of one, it must either be true or false, you know; if true, let us rejoice in his good opinion; if he lies, it is a proof at least that he loves more to please me, than to sit s”
Samuel Johnson
“He that speaketh flattery to his friends, even the eyes of his children shall fail.”
Bible
“Between flattery and admiration there often flows a river of contempt.”
Minna Antrim
“He that rewards flattery, begs it”
Proverb
“The same man cannot be both Friend and Flatterer.”
Benjamin Franklin
“Gossip is what you say about the objects of flattery when they aren't present.”
P. J. O'Rourke
