Everyone likes flattery; and when you come to Royalty you should lay it on with a trowel.
There is flattery in friendship.
Let flattery, the handmaid of the vices, be far removed (from friendship). [Lat. , Assentatio, vitiorum adjutrix, procul amoveatur. ]
One may define flattery as a base companionship which is most advantageous to the flatterer.
Gallantry of mind consists in saying flattering things in an agreeable manner.
But it is hard to know them from friends, they are so obsequious and full of protestations; for a wolf resembles a dog, so doth a flatterer a friend.
Flattery won't hurt you if you don't swallow it.
None are more taken in by flattery than the proud, who wish to be the first and are not.
By flatterers besieged And so obliging that he ne'er obliged.
I know imitation is the highest form of flattery, but stealing one's identity is totally different.
Complimenting someone in an exaggerated way is known as flattery, and flattery will generally get you anything you want.
Flattery is all right so long as you don't inhale.
Ausonius must be read to be believed! As poet, no subject is too trivial for him; as courtier, no flattery too excessive.
The god-who-serves-ME requires flattery, not worship.
Flattery is like friendship in show, but not in fruit.
I think imitation is always the greatest form of flattery.
Flattery is the infantry of negotiation.
Wounded pride can take a rich young man far who is surrounded by flatterers since birth.
Imitation isn't the sincerest form of flattery - it's plagiarism.
The man that lays his hand upon a woman, Save in the way of kindness, is a wretch Whom't were gross flattery to name a coward.