Harold B. Lee Quotes

A flatterer is a friend who is your inferior, or pretends to be so.

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

Nothing is so great an instance of ill-manners as flattery.

Flattery makes fools of the best of us.

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

A flatterers throat is an open Sepulcher.

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

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

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

He that loves to be flattered is worthy o' the flatterer.

I don't like compliments, and I don't see why a man should think he is pleasing a woman enormously when he says to her a whole heap of things that he doesn't mean.

Learn that every flatterer Lives at the flattered listeners cost.

He that is much flattered soon learns to flatter himself.

Compliments are only lies in court clothes.

Flattery is praise insincerely given for an interested purpose.

Flattery was formerly a vice; it has now become the fashion.

There would be no sunshine in society if the born flatterers, I mean the so-called amiable people, did not bring it in with them.

There is nothing which so poisons princes as flattery, nor anything whereby wicked men more easily obtain credit and favor with them.

Flattery is a juggler, and no kin unto sincerity.

Flattery is false money, which would not be current were it not for our vanity.

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.

Flattery labors under the odious charge of servility.

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