Main menu  Home  Categories  Authors  Quote of the Day  Contacts  Site map Recommend to visit Quotations by category » Flattery Quotes: 1 - 16 of 16 Pages: 1  A woman's flattery may inflate a man's head a little; but her criticism goes straight to his heart, and contracts it so that it can never again hold quite as much love for her Helen Rowland Everyone likes flattery, and when you come to Royalty, you should lay it on with a thick trowel Benjamin Disraeli Flattery is a counterfeit money which, but for vanity, would have no circulation François de la Rochefoucauld Flattery is a kind of bad money, to which our vanity gives us currency. François de la Rochefoucauld Flattery is all right if you don't inhale Adlai E. Stevenson Flattery is all right so long as you don't inhale. Adlai E. Stevenson Flattery is false coin that is only current thanks to our vanity. François de la Rochefoucauld Flattery is from the teeth out. Sincere appreciation is from the heart out. Dale Carnegie Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt of, not swallowed Josh Billings Flattery is like friendship in show, but not in fruit Socrates Flattery is telling the other person precisely what he thinks about himself Dale Carnegie Flattery is the worst and falsest way of showing our esteem Jonathan Swift 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. Eleanor Roosevelt Knavery and flattery are blood relations. Abraham Lincoln Let those flatter who fear; it is not an American art Thomas Jefferson What signifies protesting so against flattery! when a person speaks well of one, it must either be true or false, you know; if true, let us rejoice in his good opinion; if he lies, it is a proof at least that he loves more to please me, than to sit s Samuel Johnson Quotes: 1 - 16 of 16 Pages: 1  All quotations are property and copyright of their authors © 2006-2012, Land of Wisdom