False Admiration Quotes

There is nothing which so poisons princes as flattery, nor anything whereby wicked men more easily obtain credit and favor with them.

Flattery, the dangerous nurse of vice.

Man, I don't got any real fans. Just fair-weather ones and groupies.

I warn you that when the princes of this world start loving you it means they are going to grind you up into battle sausage.

The world's flattery and hypocrisy is a sweet morsel: eat less of it, for it is full of fire. Its fire is hidden while its taste is manifest, but its smoke becomes visible in the end.

Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt, not swallowed.

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

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

I'm not a star. I don't feel I'm so great. So how can I make you feel great just because you've got my signature on a piece of paper?

Flattery is all right so long as you don't inhale.

You mustn't fall in love with your own hero.

Flattery makes fools of the best of us.

We bestow on others praise in which we do not believe, on condition that in return they bestow upon us praise in which we do.

I am surrounded by flatterers and fools. It can drive a man to madness,.. . Half of them don’t dare tell me the truth, and the other half can’t find it.

He who says he hates all kinds of flattery, and says so in earnest, has undoubtedly not as yet become acquainted with all kinds of it, whether in substance or in form.

I don't like compliments, and I don't see why a man should think he is pleasing a woman enormously when he says to her a whole heap of things that he doesn't mean.

Flatterers are the worst kind of traitors, for they will strengthen thy imperfections, encourage thee in all evils, correct thee in nothing, but so shadow and paint thy follies and vices as thou shalt never, by their will, discover good from evil, or vice from virtue.

I don't put weight on fame, and having people around me just because I am famous makes me feel really bad about myself.

A flatterers throat is an open Sepulcher.

Revile those who flatter you.

flattery would be worse than vain; there is no consolation in flattery.

The prophet and the quack are alike admired for a generation, and admired for the wrong reasons.