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.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
One may define flattery as a base companionship which is most advantageous to the flatterer.
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.
A woman's flattery may inflate a man's head a little; but her criticism goes straight to his heart, and contracts it so that it can never again hold quite as much love for her.
Sheer flattery got me into the theater. Flattery always works with me, particularly the flattery of women.
Flattery is all right so long as you don't inhale.
Flattery is like chewing gum. Enjoy it but don't swallow it.
If we did not flatter ourselves, the flattery of others could never harm us.
Listening, not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery.
Naturally, there are times when every woman likes to be flattered... to feel she is the most important thing in someone's world. Only a man can paint this picture.
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