Pastoral Resources

He who says he hates every kind of flattery, and says it in earnest, certainly does not yet know every kind of flattery.

Knavery and flattery are blood relations.

The love of one's own sex is precious, for it is neither provoked by vanity nor retained by flattery; it is genuine and sincere.

I hate careless flattery, the kind that exhausts you in your efforts to believe it.

Imitation is the highest form of flattery, but clones kind of get it wrong because we are promoting individuality and being proud of being yourself.

A little flattery will support a man through great fatigue.

Sheer flattery got me into the theater. Flattery always works with me, particularly the flattery of women.

Gossip is what you say about the objects of flattery when they aren't present.

Immigration is the sincerest form of flattery.

Flattery is a kind of bad money, to which our vanity gives us currency.

If we did not flatter ourselves, the flattery of others could never harm us.

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.

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

The aim of flattery is to soothe and encourage us by assuring us of the truth of an opinion we have already formed about ourselves.

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

Flattery is all right so long as you don't inhale.

Nothing is so great an example of bad manners as flattery. If you flatter all the company, you please none; If you flatter only one or two, you offend the rest.

One may define flattery as a base companionship which is most advantageous to the flatterer.

This flattery has been rather slow in coming. I think all of sudden late in life now I'm getting some credit for what I've done. Which is gratifying, but it's kind of a little late.