Nothing in this world is harder than speaking the truth, nothing easier than flattery.
Flattery labors under the odious charge of servility.
Flattery, the dangerous nurse of vice.
You're likable enough, Hillary.
Hollywood wouldn't suit me. In L.A. it's all about work - studio people have their five minutes with you and they go, 'Oh mah Gahd, I love your movie.' You just feel very self-conscious there.
Flattery is praise insincerely given for an interested purpose.
Flattery will get you everywhere," Sam says, "Except, apparently, off a roof.
We sometimes think that we hate flattery, but we only hate the manner in which it is done. [Fr., On croit quelquefoir hair la flatterie; maid on ne hait que a maniere de flatter.]
The meanest, most contemptible kind of praise is that which first speaks well of a man, and then qualifies it with a But.
Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt, not swallowed.
Of all sorts of flattery, that which comes from a solemn character and stands before a sermon is the worst-complexioned. Such commendation is a satire upon the author, makes the text look mercenary, and disables the discourse from doing service.
Flattery'll get you anywhere.
To praise princes for virtues they do not possess is to insult them without fear of consequences.
Eulogy. Praise of a person who has either the advantages of wealth and power, or the consideration to be dead.
Incidentally, Boies, I'm sure, is a very fine lawyer.
Flattery is false money, which would not be current were it not for our vanity.
A flatterer is the shadow of a fool.
Flattery is a base coin which is current only through our vanity.
Flatterers are the worst kind of enemies. [Lat., Pessimum genus inimicorum laudantes.]
Your own gown is most delicately suitable, both to the occasion and to yourself,' to be translated: Your gown is insipid and entirely forgettable. If you wear it on every other occasion this entire season, no one will notice or care.
Flattery is a counterfeit money which, but for vanity, would have no circulation.
A flatterer is a friend who is your inferior, or pretends to be so.
Flattery is all right so long as you don't inhale.
Let flattery, the handmaid of the vices, be far removed (from friendship). [Lat., Assentatio, vitiorum adjutrix, procul amoveatur.]
Flattery makes fools of the best of us.
