Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
One may define flattery as a base companionship which is most advantageous to the flatterer.
Nothing is so great an example of bad manners as flattery. If you flatter all the company, you please none; If you flatter only one or two, you offend the rest.
Flattery is a kind of bad money, to which our vanity gives us currency.
Flattery in courtship is the highest insolence, for whilst it pretends to bestow on you more than you deserve, it is watching an opportunity to take from you what you really have.
If we did not flatter ourselves, the flattery of others could never harm us.
The flattery of posterity is not worth much more than contemporary flattery, which is worth nothing.
Flattery is all right so long as you don't inhale.
Giving is better than receiving because giving starts the receiving process.
The aim of flattery is to soothe and encourage us by assuring us of the truth of an opinion we have already formed about ourselves.
Listening, not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery.
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