"Flattery is like chewing gum. Enjoy it but don't swallow it."- Hank Ketcham
"Flattery is telling the other person precisely what he thinks about himself."- Dale Carnegie
"If we did not flatter ourselves, the flattery of others could never harm us."- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
"He who knows how to flatter also knows how to slander."- Napoleon Bonaparte
"He that is much flattered soon learns to flatter himself."- Samuel Johnson
"Between flattery and admiration there often flows a river of contempt."- Minna Antrim
"Though flattery blossoms like friendship, yet there is a vast difference in the fruit."- Socrates
"Flattery is often a traffic of mutual meanness, where although both parties intend deception, neither are deceived."- Charles Caleb Colton
"It is easy to flatter; it is harder to praise."- Jean Paul
"Every woman is infallibly to be gained by every sort of flattery, and every man by one sort or other."- Bill Vaughan
"A fool flatters himself, a wise man flatters the fool."- Edward Bulwer- Lytton
"Nothing is so great an instance of ill-manners as flattery."- Jonathan Swift
"We swallow with one gulp the lie that flatters us, and drink drop by drop the truth which is bitter to us."- Denis Diderot
"Flattery is all right so long as you don't inhale."- Adlai E. Stevenson
"The most subtle flattery that a woman can receive is by actions, not by words."- Suzanne Curchod
"The best way to convince a fool that he is wrong is to let him have his own way."- Josh Billings
"Flattery and insults raise the same question: What do you want?"- Mason Cooley
"People flatter us because they can depend upon our credulity."- Tacitus
"The most skillful flattery is to let a person talk on, and be a listener."- Joseph Addison
"Flattery is no more than what raises in a man's mind an idea of a preference which he has not."- Edmund Burke
"The art of flatterers is to take advantage of the foibles of the great, to foster their errors, and never to give advice which may annoy."- Moliere
"Every flatterer lives at the expense of him who listens to him."- Jean de La Fontaine
"Flatterers look like friends, as wolves like dogs."- George Chapman
"The flattery is nice, but awards don't add up to writing quality songs."- Chantal Kreviazuk
"Flattery was formerly a vice; it has now become the fashion."- Publilius Syrus
"Never was flattery lost on a poet's ear; a simple race, they waste their toil for the vain tribute of a smile."- Walter Scott
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