Francois de La Rochefoucauld Quotes

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

Flattery is false money, which would not be current were it not for our vanity.

Flattery is a counterfeit money which, but for vanity, would have no circulation.

Flattery makes fools of the best of us.

Flattery is no more than what raises in a man's mind an idea of a preference which he has not.

Nothing in this world is harder than speaking the truth, nothing easier than flattery.

Flattery is praise insincerely given for an interested purpose.

Pope had been flattered till he thought himself one of the moving powers of the system of life. When he talked of laying down his pen, those who sat round him intreated and implored; and self-love did not suffer him to suspect that they went away and laughed.

Flattery labors under the odious charge of servility.

Never permit yourself to indulge in cheap flattery, which often times means to merely satisfy the individuals vanity and sometimes to ingratiate the flatter into the good graces of the flattered.

We sometimes imagine we hate flattery, but we only hate the way we are flattered.

Flattery will get you everywhere," Sam says, "Except, apparently, off a roof.

Praise undeserved, is satire in disguise.

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

Baloney is flattery laid on so thick it cannot be true, and blarney is flattery so thin we love it.

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.

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

The art of pleasing is the art of deception.

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

He that loves to be flattered is worthy o' the flatterer.

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

All flatterers live at the expense of those who listen to them.

Among all the diseases of the mind there is not one more epidemical or more pernicious than the love of flattery.

A flatterer is a friend who is your inferior, or pretends to be so.