Flattery is like chewing gum. Enjoy it but don't swallow it.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
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.
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.
I hate careless flattery, the kind that exhausts you in your efforts to believe it.
Listening, not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery.
If we did not flatter ourselves, the flattery of others could never harm us.
This flattery has been rather slow in coming. I think all of sudden late in life now I'm getting some credit for what I've done. Which is gratifying, but it's kind of a little late.
One may define flattery as a base companionship which is most advantageous to the flatterer.
Flattery is a kind of bad money, to which our vanity gives us currency.
Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt, not swallowed.
Flattery is all right so long as you don't inhale.