Francois de La Rochefoucauld Quotes

Flattery is a counterfeit money which, but for vanity, would have no circulation.

Flattery is counterfeit, and like counterfeit money, it will eventually get you into trouble if you pass it to someone else.

We sometimes imagine we hate flattery, but we only hate the way we are flattered.

Flattery is the worst and falsest way of showing our esteem.

Flattery is a base coin which is current only through our vanity.

We have a name for those who try to praise when they have no pleasure in the object. We call them hypocrites.

Revile those who flatter you.

Living in Hollywood, it's easy to have someone flatter you. That doesn't help me.

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

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

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

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

All flatterers live at the expense of those who listen to them.

Now flattery can never do good; twice cursed in the giving and the receiving, it ought to be.

Compliments are only lies in court clothes.

Flattery is a juggler, and no kin unto sincerity.

Pope had been flattered till he thought himself one of the moving powers of the system of life. When he talked of laying down his pen, those who sat round him intreated and implored; and self-love did not suffer him to suspect that they went away and laughed.

He who says he hates all kinds of flattery, and says so in earnest, has undoubtedly not as yet become acquainted with all kinds of it, whether in substance or in form.

Flattery labors under the odious charge of servility.

The most detestable race of enemies are flatterers.

Praise undeserved, is satire in disguise.

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

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

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