Of course you like him; everyone enjoys flattery.
It is possible to be below flattery as well as above it.
If any man flatters me, I'll flatter him again; tho' he were my best Friend.
I will praise any man that will praise me.
O Beauty, find thyself in love, not in the flattery of thy mirror.
Knavery and flattery are blood relations.
Immigration is the sincerest form of flattery.
When we seek appreciation from others, we get not appreciation, but flattery.
Praise to the undeserving is severe satire.
People flatter us because they can depend upon our credulity.
Imitation is always insult--not flattery.
It is visible then that it was not any Heathen Religion or other Idolatrous Superstition, that first put Man upon crossing his Appetites and subduing his dearest Inclinations, but the skilful Management of wary Politicians; and the nearer we search into human Nature, the more we shall be convinced, that the Moral Virtues are the Political Offspring which Flattery begot upon Pride.
Praise is a more ingenious, concealed, and subtle kind of flattery, that satisfies both the giver and the receiver, though by verydifferent ways. The one accepts it as a reward due to his merit; the other gives it that he may be looked upon as a just and discerning person.
The flatterer easily insinuates himself into the closet, while honest merit stands shivering in the hall or antechamber.
There is not one of us that would not be worse than kings, if so continually corrupted as they are with a sort of vermin called flatterers.
Flattery leads to vulgarity; the flatterer is despised.
I have already settled it for myself so flattery and criticism go down the same drain and I am quite free.
Just praise is only a debt, but flattery is a present. The acknowledgment of those virtues on which conscience congratulates us is a tribute that we can at any tine exact with confidence; but the celebration of those which we only feign, or desire without any vigorous endeavours to attain them, is received as a confession of sovereignty over regions never conquered, as a favourable decision of disputable claims, and is more welcome as more gratuitous.
I know imitation is the highest form of flattery, but stealing one's identity is totally different.