Insincere Flattery Quotes

Flattery labors under the odious charge of servility.

Flattery is no more than what raises in a man's mind an idea of a preference which he has not.

All flatterers are mercenary, and all low-minded men are flatterers.

We often make use of envenomed praise, that reveals on the rebound, as it were, defects in those praised which we dare not exposeany other way.

Flattery is like wine, which exhilarates a man for a moment, but usually ends by going to his head and making him act foolishly.

There are a lot of guys in Hollywood who clap you on the back just a little too hard.

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

The flatterer easily insinuates himself into the closet, while honest merit stands shivering in the hall or antechamber.

Flatterers are the worst kind of traitors, for they will strengthen thy imperfections, encourage thee in all evils, correct thee in nothing, but so shadow and paint thy follies and vices as thou shalt never, by their will, discover good from evil, or vice from virtue.

People in the Midwest, there's a lot of regional pride and a lot more, like, fake positivity - 'That's great - you're awesome!'

I don't want somebody sucking up to me because they think I am going to help their career. I want them sucking up to me because they genuinely love me.

Each single thing can be referred more easily to the hand and rod of God. This is nothing more or less than wishing to please God by a lie.

To be hated cordially, is only a left-handed compliment.

The English say, Yours Truly, and mean it. The Italians say, I kiss your feet, and mean, I kick your head.

He hurts me most who lavishly commends.

What honour that, But tedious waste of time, to sit and hear So many hollow compliments and lies.

Never was flattery lost on a poet's ear; a simple race, they waste their toil for the vain tribute of a smile.

I have often seen people uncivil by too much civility, and tiresome in their courtesy.

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

Nothing is more effective than sincere, accurate praise, and nothing is more lame than a cookie-cutter compliment.

I've been in things that have impressed people and they've come up to congratulate you but in a kind of, you-must-think-you're-really-special way.

A Hallmark card with paragraphs about my beauty written by a stranger is vaguely depressing.