Flattery and insults raise the same question: What do you want?
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.
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.
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.
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.
Listening, not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery.
Flattery is all right so long as you don't inhale.
I can spot empty flattery and know exactly where I stand. In the end it's really only my own approval or disapproval that means anything.