(95 quotes found)
“Madam, before you flatter a man so grossly to his face, you should consider whether your flattery is worth having”
Samuel Johnson
“Attempts at imitation are the sincerest form of flattery, ... There's many of us sitting around today that are very flattered.”
Brad Brooks
“If I don't recognize you, it's just that you were'nt worth remembering.”
Clyde DeSouza
“One's self-enjoyment of received flattery innudates and capsizes his thinking cap.”
Anuj Somany
“The gentle wave of self-enjoyment on received flattery even inundates and capsizes many thinking caps.”
“Flattery people only put the biggest boulders in one's growth trajectory. If one shuns them, his success turns to excellence with consistency.”
“If you have enough people sitting around telling you you're wonderful, then you start believing you're fabulous, then someone tells you you stink and you believe that too!”
Angelina Jolie
“If we did not flatter ourselves the flattery from others would not harm us.”
Proverb
“Every woman is infallibly to be gained by every sort of flattery, and every man by one sort or other.”
Earl Of Chesterfield
“Don't say it was "delightful"; make us say "delightful" when we've read the description. You see, all those words (horrifying, wonderful, hideous, exquisite) are only like saying to your readers "Please will you do the job for me."”
C.S. Lewis
