Flattery Quotes

“O that men's ears should be To counsel deaf but not to flattery!”

“Flattery is all right - if you don't inhale.”

“What really flatters a man is that you think him worth flattery.”

“Heart-stopping envy is the sincerest form of flattery.”

“Few human beings are proof against the implied flattery of rapt attention.”

“It flattered her, where she was most susceptible of flattery, to think how, wound about in their hearts, however long they lived she would be woven...”

“Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt, not swallowed.”

“Listening, not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery.”

“Tis an old maxim in the schools That flattery's the food of fools - Yet now and then your men of wit Will condescend to take a bit.”