To ask advice is in nine cases out of ten to tout for flattery.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Flattery is all right so long as you don't inhale.
The best advice that was given to me was that I had to be 10 times smarter, braver and more polite to be equal. So I did.
Flattery is like chewing gum. Enjoy it but don't swallow it.
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 aim of flattery is to soothe and encourage us by assuring us of the truth of an opinion we have already formed about ourselves.
Good advice is always certain to be ignored, but that's no reason not to give it.
One may define flattery as a base companionship which is most advantageous to the flatterer.
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.
Advice is seldom welcome; and those who want it the most always like it the least.
If someone gives you so-called good advice, do the opposite; you can be sure it will be the right thing nine out of 10 times.