quotations about flattery
Some persons are insensible to flattering words, but who can resist the flattery of modest imitation?
ARTHUR HELPS
Thoughts in the Cloister and the Crowd
Sweet words are like honey, a little may refresh, but too much gluts the stomach.
ANNE BRADSTREET
Meditations Divine and Moral
Persons who discover a flatterer, do not always disapprove him, because he imagines them considerable enough to deserve his applications.
WILLIAM SHENSTONE
Essays on Men and Manners
If it have an object, then flattery is the taking crafty advantage of weakness, which honor holds odious.
JAMES VILA BLAKE
Essays
Flattery is refined deception--it is the froth of language--it is the alcohol of social intercourse--it is the prescription of the subtle--and the nectar of fools.
WILLIAM SCOTT DOWNEY
Proverbs
In the best, the friendliest and simplest relations flattery or praise is necessary, just as grease is necessary to keep wheels turning.
LEO TOLSTOY
War and Peace
It is very easy to discern flattery in most people, but to discern its motives, requires an uncommon depth of penetration.
NORMAN MACDONALD
Maxims and Moral Reflections
All men are susceptible of flattery: its reception is neither precarious nor doubtful, when once the proper channel of communication is explored.
NORMAN MACDONALD
Maxims and Moral Reflections
Some men however, want more home flattery to keep them tolerably happy and up to the mark than any woman with a soul to be saved by truth can give.
ELIZA LYNN LINTON
"Flattery", The Girl of the Period and Other Social Essays