FLATTERY

Flattery is a form of hatred.
Bible

Flattery is all right if you don't inhale.
Adlai E. Stevenson

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

Flattery makes friends and truth makes enemies.
Spanish Proverbs

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

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

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

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

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

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

If we did not flatter ourselves the flattery from others would not harm us.
Proverbs

To make a man perfectly happy tell him he works too hard, that he spends too much money, that he is ''misunderstood'' or that he is ''different''; none of this is necessarily complimentary, but it will flatter him infinitely more that merely telling him that he is brilliant, or noble, or wise, or good.
Helen Rowland

Women who are either indisputably beautiful, or indisputably ugly, are best flattered upon the score of their understandings; but those who are in a state of mediocrity are best flattered upon their beauty, or at least their graces: for every woman who is not absolutely ugly, thinks herself handsome.
Lord Chesterfield

A flatterer is one who says things to your face that he wouldn't say behind your back.
Source Unknown

Every flatterer lives at the expense of him who listens to him.
Jean De La Fontaine

But it is hard to know them from friends, they are so obsequious and full of protestations; for a wolf resembles a dog, so doth a flatterer a friend.
Sir Walter Raleigh

Look closely at those who patronize you. Half are unfeeling, half untaught.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

The coin that is most current among mankind is flattery: the only benefit of which is that by hearing what we are not, we may be instructed on what to become.
Source Unknown

Self-love is the greatest of all flatterers.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Baloney is flattery laid on so thick it cannot be true, and blarney is flattery so thin we love it.
Fulton John Sheen

Many lick before they bite.
Proverbs

Just praise is only a debt, but flattery is a present.
Samuel Johnson