Katherine Kenton remains among the generation of women who feel that the most sincere form of flattery is the male erection.
Blame-all and Praise-all are two blockheads.
Of all sorts of flattery, that which comes from a solemn character and stands before a sermon is the worst-complexioned. Such commendation is a satire upon the author, makes the text look mercenary, and disables the discourse from doing service.
Let those flatter who fear; it is not an American art.
Just praise is only a debt, but flattery is a present.
Not kings alone--the people, too, have their flatterers.
Flattery is useful when dealing with youngsters.
One can also be undignified and flattering toward a virtue.
Gossip involves saying behind a person’s back what you would never say to his or her face. Flattery means saying to a person’s face what you would never say behind his or her back.
We sometimes imagine we hate flattery, but we only hate the way we are flattered.
No wonder, Sir, that he is vain; a man who is perpetually flattered in every mode that can be conceived. So many bellows have blown the fire, that one wonders he is not by this time become a cinder.
Flattery is like wine, which exhilarates a man for a moment, but usually ends by going to his head and making him act foolishly.
I will praise any man that will praise me.
What drink'st thou oft, instead of homage sweet, But poisoned flattery?
Every woman is infallibly to be gained by every sort of flattery, and every man by one sort or other.
Do not offer a compliment and ask a favor at the same time. A compliment that is charged for is not valuable.
Many a maid have I won by a quarrel, when flattery was in no wise helpful; but take heed that thou art in the wrong, so that thou mayest acknowledge thine error.
Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt, not swallowed.
He who says he hates every kind of flattery, and says it in earnest, certainly does not yet know every kind of flattery.
Knavery and flattery are blood relations.