Flattery Quotes & Sayings
These flattery quotes, sayings and quotations are from our famous quotes collection. Inspirational quotes, sayings and quotations.Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt of, not swallowed. - Josh Billings
Let flattery, the handmaid of the vices, be far removed (from friendship). [La., Assentatio, vitiorum adjutrix, procul amoveatur] - Marcus Tullius Cicero
Feel you the barren flattery of a rhyme? Can poets soothe you, when you pine for bread, By winding myrtle round your ruin'd shed? - George Crabbe
Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. - Charles Caleb Colton
Flattery brings friends, but the truth begets enmity. - Lord Alfred Tennyson
Flattery is a counterfeit money which, but for vanity, would have no circulation. - Francois De La Rochefoucauld
We sometimes think that we hate flattery, but we only hate the manner in which it is done. [Fr., On croit quelquefoir hair la flatterie; maid on ne hait que a maniere de flatter] - Francois De La Rochefoucauld
Patron: One who countenances, supports or protects. Commonly a wretch who supports with insolence, and is paid with flattery. - Samuel Johnson