Words matter. These are the best Flattery Quotes from famous people such as Pamela Meyer, AnnaLynne McCord, Fulton J. Sheen, Brian Molko, Jonathan Swift, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
One-year-olds learn concealment. Five-year-olds lie outright: they manipulate via flattery. Nine-year-olds – masters of the cover-up. By the time you enter college, you’re going to lie to your mom in one out of every five interactions.
I know imitation is the highest form of flattery, but stealing one’s identity is totally different.
Baloney is flattery laid on so thick it cannot be true, and blarney is flattery so thin we love it.
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.
Nothing is so great an example of bad manners as flattery. If you flatter all the company, you please none; If you flatter only one or two, you offend the rest.
Flattery is like chewing gum. Enjoy it but don’t swallow it.
Flattery is all right so long as you don’t inhale.
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.
I think people ragging on me is kind of a form of flattery.
Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.
Flattery in courtship is the highest insolence, for whilst it pretends to bestow on you more than you deserve, it is watching an opportunity to take from you what you really have.
Immigration is the sincerest form of flattery.
The flattery of posterity is not worth much more than contemporary flattery, which is worth nothing.
Between flattery and admiration there often flows a river of contempt.
Flattery and criticism are always in our profession.
Listening, not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery.
Knavery and flattery are blood relations.
To ask advice is in nine cases out of ten to tout for flattery.
I trust it will not be giving away professional secrets to say that many readers would be surprised, perhaps shocked, at the questions which some newspaper editors will put to a defenseless woman under the guise of flattery.
Nothing says, ‘I pay attention to detail!’ like footwear flattery from a boy.
None are more taken in by flattery than the proud, who wish to be the first and are not.
One may define flattery as a base companionship which is most advantageous to the flatterer.
Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt, not swallowed.
We should keep silent about those in power; to speak well of them almost implies flattery; to speak ill of them while they are alive is dangerous, and when they are dead is cowardly.
The love of one’s own sex is precious, for it is neither provoked by vanity nor retained by flattery; it is genuine and sincere.
The best form of flattery is to be admired, imitated or respected. I’ve always felt proud our fans look up to us or feel we are inspirational.
I hate careless flattery, the kind that exhausts you in your efforts to believe it.
Flattery is a kind of bad money, to which our vanity gives us currency.
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.
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.
I have always found it interesting… that there are people who regard copyright infringement as a form of flattery.
Gossip is what you say about the objects of flattery when they aren’t present.
With imitation being the sincerest form of flattery, I went out there and wanted to be Shawn Michaels 2.
Am I the only person in the world who is shocked and amazed at the ongoing flattery of uebergeek Mark Zuckerberg?
Although I am small, ugly and dirty, I am highly ambitious, and at the slightest flattery, I immediately start to strut like a turkey.
Imitation is obviously a great form of flattery.
Everyone likes flattery; and when you come to Royalty you should lay it on with a trowel.
Advertising – a judicious mixture of flattery and threats.
If we did not flatter ourselves, the flattery of others could never harm us.
Whenever somebody folds, say, ‘Good laydown.’ It encourages them to fold on a later hand because it makes them feel like you had the best hand even if you were bluffing. It’s an odd form of flattery that seems to work at the poker table.
I do not listen to criticism or flattery, one weakens you and the other angers you.
From every ancient source, we have testimony to Cleopatra’s irresistible charm, as Plutarch has it, to her ability to speak many languages including, as he puts it, the language of flattery and essentially, to be able to turn people to her will – really a great political genius, in that respect.
Flattery was one of Kissinger’s principal tools in winning over Nixon, and a tool he employed shamelessly.
You cannot ‘rationalize’ what is not rational to begin with – as if lying were called ‘truthization.’ There is no way to obtain more truth for a proposition by bribery, flattery, or the most passionate argument – you can make more people believe the proposition, but you cannot make it more true.
Imitation is flattery. There was once a survey of who was the most imitated celebrity in Latin American countries, especially in Brazil and Argentina, and I was in third place after Elvis Presley and Michael Jackson.
