Charles Dickens Quotes

I cannot think of any character below the flatterer, except he who envies him.

Commend a fool for his wit, or a rogue for his honesty and he will receive you into his favor.

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

Men sometimes think they hate flattery, but they hate only the manner of flattering.

It is simpler and easier to flatter people than to praise them.

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

A politician normally flatters you in your face and criticises you behind your back.

Compliments are only lies in court clothes.

Patience is a flatterer, sir, and an ass, sir.

Flattery is often a traffic of mutual meanness, where although both parties intend deception, neither are deceived.

A flatterers throat is an open Sepulcher.

Praise undeserved, is satire in disguise.

He who knows how to flatter also knows how to slander.

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

Thank you, people who say 'Wow, you're really photogenic,' for not saying what you really mean: 'Wow, you're really ugly in person.'

There have been many great men that have flattered the people who ne'er loved them.

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

Ambition drove many men to become false; to have one thought locked in the breast, another ready on the tongue.

Everyone always tells you that you're the only one that can do this or that role right, and if you say no, they go to somebody else and tell them that they're the only one that can do it right. But when they're talking to you, you're always the 'Best Actor of Your Generation.'

You know when someone's over-flattering you in a way. You smile but you can't believe it.

Knavery and flattery are blood relations.

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

There is no belittling worse than to over praise a man.

Do not trust the cheering, for those persons would shout as much if you or I were going to be hanged.