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If we did not flatter ourselves, the flattery of others could never harm us.

The best form of flattery is to be admired, imitated or respected. I've always felt proud our fans look up to us or feel we are inspirational.

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

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

Listening, not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery.

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.

The flattery of posterity is not worth much more than contemporary flattery, which is worth nothing.

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.

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