What really flatters a man is ...

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

~George Bernard Shaw~

We swallow with one gulp the l...

We swallow with one gulp the lie that flatters us, and drink drop by drop the truth which is bitter to us.

~Denis Diderot~

Their throat is an open sepulc...

Their throat is an open sepulchre; they flatter with their tongue.

~Bible~

The reason that adulation is n...

The reason that adulation is not displeasing is that, though untrue, it shows one to be of consequence enough, in one way or other, to induce people to lie.

~Lord Byron~

O, that men's ears should be T...

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

~William Shakespeare~

Nothing flatters a man as much...

Nothing flatters a man as much as the happiness of his wife; he is always proud of himself as the source of it.

~Samuel Johnson~

Men are like stone jugs - you ...

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

~Samuel Johnson~

He who says he hates every kin...

He who says he hates every kind of flattery, and says it in earnest, certainly does not yet know every kind of flattery.

~Georg C. Lichtenberg~

He that flatters you more than...

He that flatters you more than you desire either has deceived you or wishes to deceive.

~Italian Proverbs~

It is easy to flatter; it is h...

It is easy to flatter; it is harder to praise.

~Jean Paul Richter~

Imitation is the sincerest (fo...

Imitation is the sincerest (form) of flattery.

~Walter Colton~

Flattery makes friends and tru...

Flattery makes friends and truth makes enemies.

~Spanish Proverbs~

Flattery is all right if you d...

Flattery is all right if you don't inhale.

~Adlai E. Stevenson~

Don't flatter the rich, or app...

Don't flatter the rich, or appear to willing before the great.

~Thomas p Kempis~

A man that flattereth his neig...

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

~Bible~