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Flattery Quotes

Isaac Asimov quote: "Flattery is useful when dealing with youngsters."
Flattery is useful when dealing with youngsters. Isaac Asimov
Flattery is as important a machine as the lever, isn't it, Saxonberg? Give it a proper place to rest, and it can move the world. E. L. Konigsburg
Dale Carnegie quote: "Flattery is telling the other person precisely what he thinks..."
Flattery is telling the other person precisely what he thinks about himself. Dale Carnegie
Josh Billings quote: "Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt of, not swallowed."
Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt of, not swallowed. Josh Billings
Flattery in courtship is the highest insolence, for whilst it pretends to bestow on you more than you deserve, it is watching an opportunity to take from you what you really have. Sarah Fielding
Adlai E. Stevenson quote: "Flattery is all right so long as you don't inhale."
Flattery is all right so long as you don't inhale. Adlai E. Stevenson
Mason Cooley quote: "Flattery and insults raise the same question: What do you want?"
Flattery and insults raise the same question: What do you want? Mason Cooley
Edmund Burke quote: "Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver."
Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver. Edmund Burke
Hank Ketcham quote: "Flattery is like chewing gum. Enjoy it but don't swallow it."
Flattery is like chewing gum. Enjoy it but don't swallow it. Hank Ketcham
Francois de La Rochefoucauld quote: "Flattery is a kind of bad money, to which our vanity gives us..."
Flattery is a kind of bad money, to which our vanity gives us currency. Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Josh Billings quote: "Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt, not swallowed."
Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt, not swallowed. Josh Billings
Carroll O'Connor quote: "Sheer flattery got me into the theater. Flattery always works..."
Sheer flattery got me into the theater. Flattery always works with me, particularly the flattery of women. Carroll O'Connor
There is nothing in the world more difficult than candor, and nothing easier than flattery. If there is a hundredth of a fraction of a false note to candor, it immediately produces dissonance, and as a result, exposure. But in flattery, even if everything is false down to the last note, it is still pleasant, and people will listen not without pleasure; with coarse pleasure, perhaps, but pleasure nevertheless. Fyodor Dostoevsky
Georg C. Lichtenberg quote: "He who says he hates every kind of flattery, and says it in..."
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
Fulton J. Sheen quote: "Baloney is flattery laid on so thick it cannot be true, and..."
Baloney is flattery laid on so thick it cannot be true, and blarney is flattery so thin we love it. Fulton J. Sheen

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