flattery quotes

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

Knavery and flattery are blood relations.