Quotes on Flattery

Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt, not swallowed.

Author: Josh Billings

The flattery of posterity is not worth much more than contemporary flattery, which is worth nothing.

Author: Jorge Borges

Listening, not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery.

Author: Joyce Brothers

Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.

Author: Edmund Burke

Flattery is the infantry of negotiation.

Author: Lord Chandos

Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.

Author: Charles Colton

Flattery and insults raise the same question: What do you want?

Author: Mason Cooley

Everyone likes flattery; and when you come to Royalty you should lay it on with a trowel.

Author: Benjamin Disraeli

Imitation is the sincerest flattery.

Author: Mohandas Gandhi

Flattery is like chewing gum. Enjoy it but don't swallow it.

Author: Hank Ketcham

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

Author: P. O'Rourke

Immigration is the sincerest form of flattery.

Author: Jack Paar

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

Author: Francois Rochefoucauld

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

Author: Adlai Stevenson