35 Flattery Quotes for You to Enjoy

Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. Charles Caleb Colton

Imitation Sincerest Sincerest Form Form Flattery

Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver. Edmund Burke

Corrupts Giver Both Flattery Receiver

None are more taken in by flattery than the proud, who wish to be the first and are not. Baruch Spinoza

First Wish Be The First More Taken None Proud Than Flattery Who

Gossip is what you say about the objects of flattery when they aren't present. P. J. O'Rourke

You Gossip Say About Objects Flattery Present

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. Brian Molko

Yourself Imitation Kind Promoting Highest Highest Form Individuality Wrong Because Proud Get Being Form Flattery Being Proud Being Yourself

Flattery is like chewing gum. Enjoy it but don't swallow it. Hank Ketcham

Enjoy Gum Like Chewing Chewing Gum Swallow Flattery

Sometimes, idealistic people are put off the whole business of networking as something tainted by flattery and the pursuit of selfish advantage. But virtue in obscurity is rewarded only in Heaven. To succeed in this world you have to be known to people. Sonia Sotomayor

You Business Selfish People World Sometimes Virtue Something Only Networking Tainted Pursuit Obscurity Put Advantage Idealistic Known Off Heaven Rewarded Flattery Succeed Whole

Flattery and insults raise the same question: What do you want? Mason Cooley

You Insults Question Same Want Flattery Raise

Imitation is obviously a great form of flattery. Peyton Manning

Great Imitation Obviously Form Flattery

Everyone likes flattery; and when you come to Royalty you should lay it on with a trowel. Benjamin Disraeli

You Everyone Lay Come Likes Flattery Should Royalty

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. Jean de la Bruyere

Speak Dangerous Power Cowardly Those Alive Silent About Almost Implies Dead Well While Flattery Them Should Ill Keep

Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt, not swallowed. Josh Billings

Funny Water Cologne Like Swallowed Flattery

I hate careless flattery, the kind that exhausts you in your efforts to believe it. Wilson Mizner

You Hate Believe Careless Kind Efforts Flattery Your

I know imitation is the highest form of flattery, but stealing one's identity is totally different. AnnaLynne McCord

Imitation Totally Stealing Highest Highest Form Know Identity Different Form Flattery

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. Eliezer Yudkowsky

Immigration is the sincerest form of flattery. Jack Paar

Immigration Sincerest Sincerest Form Form Flattery

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. Jonathan Swift

Great You Rest Example Nothing Manners Please Bad One Or Two Bad Manners Only None Offend Flatter Flattery Company Two

Listening, not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery. Joyce Brothers

Communication Listening Imitation Sincerest Sincerest Form May Form Flattery

Rapping can be repetition sometimes. Sometimes you gotta highlight your words in a certain kind of way. So I always was a fan of sing-rapping. It was always funny to me a little bit, and I think that being funny and being able to laugh, even at yourself, is a form of flattery. ASAP Ferg

Funny Me You Yourself Words Sometimes Think Way Bit Laugh Kind Rapping Able Highlight Always Gotta Repetition Being Fan Form Being Funny Flattery Little Little Bit Certain Your Even

Women in Washington - and in positions of power anywhere - should be subjected to the same criticisms and held to the same standards as men. That does not include the assumption that any successful woman has attained her position through flattery, feminine wiles, or her ability to provide maternal comfort to a more powerful man. Donna Brazile

Man Woman Women Men Power Positions Assumption Criticisms Ability More Through Attained Powerful Powerful Man Comfort Does Feminine Maternal Provide Subjected Same Any Anywhere Flattery Held Successful Should Standards Include Washington Her Position

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. Helen Rowland

This flattery has been rather slow in coming. I think all of sudden late in life now I'm getting some credit for what I've done. Which is gratifying, but it's kind of a little late. Jack Vance

Life Slow Think Late Has-Been Kind Some Rather Coming Been Done Getting Which Flattery Little Sudden Gratifying Now Credit

To pay attention to flattery or criticism is a waste of time for artists. John McLaughlin

Time Criticism Pay Pay Attention Attention Artists Flattery Waste Waste Of Time

The flattery of posterity is not worth much more than contemporary flattery, which is worth nothing. Jorge Luis Borges

Worth Nothing Posterity More Contemporary Than Which Flattery Much

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