Leaders of the Church have often been Narcissus, flattered and sickeningly excited by their courtiers. The court is the leprosy of the papacy.

Although a skillful flatterer is a most delightful companion if you have him all to yourself, his taste becomes very doubtful when he takes to complimenting other people.

He that loves to be flattered is worthy o‘ the flatterer.

Surely wisdom will come as we listen to learn from children, parents, partners, neighbors, Church leaders, and the Lord.

When the leaders choose to make themselves bidders at an auction of popularity, their talents, in the construction of the state, will be of no service. They will become flatterers instead of legislators; the instruments, not the guides, of the people.

Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.

The biggest disease today is not leprosy or tuberculosis, but rather the feeling of being unwanted.

When your friends begin to flatter you on how young you look, it’s a sure sign you’re getting old.

He who knows how to flatter also knows how to slander.

There have been many great men that have flattered the people who ne’er loved them.

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

Sometimes it’s flattering when people copy you, but sometimes it gets to a breaking point.

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

Knavery and flattery are blood relations.

I once had a rose named after me and I was very flattered. But I was not pleased to read the description in the catalogue: no good in a bed, but fine up against a wall.

There is as much difference between the counsel that a friend giveth, and that a man giveth himself, as there is between the counsel of a friend and of a flatterer. For there is no such flatterer as is a man’s self.

I’ve got a great sense of humor, and if I’m able to say or do something in a movie that people feel like they want to repeat, that’s hugely flattering.

All the president is, is a glorified public relations man who spends his time flattering, kissing, and kicking people to get them to do what they are supposed to do anyway.

Americans adore me and will go on adoring me until I say something nice about them.

Faith, there hath been many great men that have flattered the people who ne’er loved them.