Flattery is a kind of bad money, to which our vanity gives us currency.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The flattery of posterity is not worth much more than contemporary flattery, which is worth nothing.
If we did not flatter ourselves, the flattery of others could never harm us.
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 like chewing gum. Enjoy it but don't swallow it.
One may define flattery as a base companionship which is most advantageous to the flatterer.
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.
I hate careless flattery, the kind that exhausts you in your efforts to believe it.
Flattery is all right so long as you don't inhale.
Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.
Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt, not swallowed.
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