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.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
If we did not flatter ourselves, the flattery of others could never harm us.
One may define flattery as a base companionship which is most advantageous to the flatterer.
Flattery is like chewing gum. Enjoy it but don't swallow it.
I hate careless flattery, the kind that exhausts you in your efforts to believe it.
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.
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.
Flattery is all right so long as you don't inhale.
Flattery is a kind of bad money, to which our vanity gives us currency.
Sheer flattery got me into the theater. Flattery always works with me, particularly the flattery of women.
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.
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