Flattery Quotes

What a situation!' cried Miss Squeers; '...What is the reason that men fall in love with me, whether I like it or not, and desert their chosen intendeds for my sake?' 'Because they can't help it, miss,' replied the girl; 'the reason's plain.' (If Miss Squeers were the reason, it was very plain.)

Charles Dickens

An ingenuous mind feels in unmerited praise the bitterest reproof.

Walter Savage Landor

It is simpler and easier to flatter men than to praise them.

Jean Paul Richter

Among the smaller duties in life I hardly know any one more important than that of not praising when praise is not due.

Praise to the undeserving is severe satire.

Benjamin Franklin

It's pleasant to hear these nice words while I'm still alive. I'd rather have the taffy than the epitaphy.

Commendation n: the tribute that we pay to achievements that resemble but do not equal our own.

Applause is the spur of noble minds the end and aim of weak ones.

Charles Caleb Colton

The meanest most contemptible kind of praise is that which first speaks well of a man and then qualifies it with a 'but'.

Henry Ward Beecher

He who gladly does without the praise of the crowd will not miss the opportunity of becoming his own fan.

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

Adlai Stevenson

The advantage of doing one's praising to oneself is that one can lay it on so thick and exactly in the right places.

Some praise at morning what they blame at night.

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

George Bernard Shaw

Our credulity is greatest concerning the things we know least about. And since we know least about ourselves we are ready to believe all that is said about us. Hence the mysterious power of both flattery and calumny.

Some fellows pay a compliment like they expected a receipt.

I can live for two months on a good compliment.

A compliment is a gift not to be thrown away carelessly unless you want to hurt the giver.

Eleanor Hamilton

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.

The true test of independent judgement is being able to dislike someone who admires us.

Sydney J. Harris

Once in a century a man may be ruined or made insufferable by praise. But surely once a minute something generous dies for want of it.

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

Some natures are too good to be spoiled by praise.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

A rich man's joke is always funny.

Thomas Edward Brown

Be advised that all flatterers live at the expense of those who listen to them.

Jean de La Fontaine

In lapidary inscriptions a man is not upon oath.

Let us now praise famous men and our fathers that begat us.

Bible

Nobody roots for Goliath.

Wilt Chamberlain

Self-praise is no recommendation.

An ingenuous mind feels in unmerited praise the bitterest reproof.

Walter Savage Landor

It is simpler and easier to flatter men than to praise them.

Jean Paul Richter

Among the smaller duties in life I hardly know any one more important than that of not praising when praise is not due.

Praise to the undeserving is severe satire.

Benjamin Franklin

It's pleasant to hear these nice words while I'm still alive. I'd rather have the taffy than the epitaphy.

Commendation n: the tribute that we pay to achievements that resemble but do not equal our own.

Applause is the spur of noble minds the end and aim of weak ones.

Charles Caleb Colton

The meanest most contemptible kind of praise is that which first speaks well of a man and then qualifies it with a 'but'.

Henry Ward Beecher

He who gladly does without the praise of the crowd will not miss the opportunity of becoming his own fan.

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

Adlai Stevenson

The advantage of doing one's praising to oneself is that one can lay it on so thick and exactly in the right places.

Some praise at morning what they blame at night.

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

George Bernard Shaw

Our credulity is greatest concerning the things we know least about. And since we know least about ourselves we are ready to believe all that is said about us. Hence the mysterious power of both flattery and calumny.

Some fellows pay a compliment like they expected a receipt.

I can live for two months on a good compliment.

A compliment is a gift not to be thrown away carelessly unless you want to hurt the giver.

Eleanor Hamilton

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.

The true test of independent judgement is being able to dislike someone who admires us.

Sydney J. Harris

Once in a century a man may be ruined or made insufferable by praise. But surely once a minute something generous dies for want of it.

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

Some natures are too good to be spoiled by praise.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

A rich man's joke is always funny.

Thomas Edward Brown

Be advised that all flatterers live at the expense of those who listen to them.

Jean de La Fontaine

In lapidary inscriptions a man is not upon oath.

Let us now praise famous men and our fathers that begat us.

Bible

Nobody roots for Goliath.

Wilt Chamberlain

Self-praise is no recommendation.

Men are like stone jugs - you may lug them where you like by the ears.

A man that flattereth his neighbor spreadeth a net for his feet.

Bible

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

William Shakespeare

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