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The flattery of posterity is not worth much more than contemporary flattery, which is worth nothing. Jorge Luis Borges

Flattery and deceit are the darlings of great men, and so with these men spread the butter on thick, if you want to get something out of them, otherwise you'll come home to me with a full belly and an empty purse.

Pietro Aretino

If we did not flatter ourselves, the flattery of others could never harm us.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Everyone likes flattery; and when you come to Royalty you should lay it on with a trowel.

Benjamin Disraeli

Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.

Charles Caleb Colton

A president aiming for 'Great' or 'Near Great' status must do more. He must give lots of interviews, make records accessible, and heap the flattery on academia - each of which Mr. Bush has signally failed to do.

Thomas Frank

Imitation is flattery, and The Hills Have Eyes is a classic.

Michael Berryman

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.

Sarah Fielding

Said I was beautiful, did he? He's being paid for treatment, not flattery.

Lillie Langtry

None are more taken in by flattery than the proud, who wish to be the first and are not.

Baruch Spinoza

Sometimes, idealistic people are put off the whole business of networking as something tainted by flattery and the pursuit of selfish advantage. But virtue in obscurity is rewarded only in Heaven. To succeed in this world you have to be known to people.

Sonia Sotomayor

Flattery is like chewing gum. Enjoy it but don't swallow it.

Hank Ketcham

One may define flattery as a base companionship which is most advantageous to the flatterer.

Theophrastus

Flattery and insults raise the same question: What do you want?

Mason Cooley

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.

Cheryl James

I hate careless flattery, the kind that exhausts you in your efforts to believe it.

Wilson Mizner

Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.

Edmund Burke

Flattery was one of Kissinger's principal tools in winning over Nixon, and a tool he employed shamelessly.

Robert Dallek

Women in Washington - and in positions of power anywhere - should be subjected to the same criticisms and held to the same standards as men. That does not include the assumption that any successful woman has attained her position through flattery, feminine wiles, or her ability to provide maternal comfort to a more powerful man.

Donna Brazile

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.

Helen Rowland

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.

Jonathan Swift

We should keep silent about those in power; to speak well of them almost implies flattery; to speak ill of them while they are alive is dangerous, and when they are dead is cowardly.

Jean de la Bruyere

The love of one's own sex is precious, for it is neither provoked by vanity nor retained by flattery; it is genuine and sincere.

Maria Mitchell

To ask advice is in nine cases out of ten to tout for flattery.

John Churton Collins

Between flattery and admiration there often flows a river of contempt.

Minna Antrim

Flattery is a kind of bad money, to which our vanity gives us currency.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Immigration is the sincerest form of flattery.

Jack Paar

The flattery of posterity is not worth much more than contemporary flattery, which is worth nothing.

Jorge Luis Borges

I trust it will not be giving away professional secrets to say that many readers would be surprised, perhaps shocked, at the questions which some newspaper editors will put to a defenseless woman under the guise of flattery.

Kate Chopin

My cut is blunt and futuristic, and Nicki Minaj started wearing that bob on her head after she came to my show, so at the end of the day, I know what I do, and I know what I possess, and I know who I am. I'm a trendsetter. The biggest form of flattery is imitation, so I'm flattered.

Lil Mama

Flattery is all right so long as you don't inhale.

Adlai Stevenson I

Imitation is the highest form of flattery, but clones kind of get it wrong because we are promoting individuality and being proud of being yourself.

Brian Molko

A little flattery will support a man through great fatigue.

James Monroe

Am I the only person in the world who is shocked and amazed at the ongoing flattery of uebergeek Mark Zuckerberg?

Tom Hodgkinson

Sheer flattery got me into the theater. Flattery always works with me, particularly the flattery of women.

Carroll O'Connor

Imitation is obviously a great form of flattery.

Peyton Manning

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.

Agnetha Faltskog