False Compliments Quotes

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

Praise undeserved, is satire in disguise.

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

Flattery is a base coin which is current only through our vanity.

A flatterer is the shadow of a fool.

The contrived language and the flattering attitude rarely come with the virtue.

It is undoubtedly true that some people mistake sycophancy for good nature, but it is equally true that many more mistake impertinence for sincerity.

The girl was grateful to the young man for every bit of flattery; she wanted to linger for a moment in its warmth and so she said, 'You're very good at lying.' 'Do I look like a liar?' 'You look like you enjoy lying to women,' said the girl, and into her words there crept unawares a touch of the old anxiety, because she really did believe that her young man enjoyed lying to women.

Flattery is a foolish suicide; she destroys herself with her own hands.

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

Avoid flatterers, for they are thieves in disguise.

So, after awhile, you can only get so much happiness from a guy who's drunk come up and tell you you're great.

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

As far as I can make out, women's friendships with each other are based on a gush of lies and pretty speeches that mean nothing. You'd think they were all wolves trying to seduce each other the way they flatter and flirt when they're together.

There are many times when a woman will ask another girl friend how she likes her new hat. She will reply, 'Fine,' but slap her hand to her forehead the minute the girl leaves to yipe, 'What a horror!'

In the mouths of many men soft words are like roses that soldiers put into the muzzles of their muskets on holidays.

You ask if you look good and you know people are lying. It was a depressing thing to experience. I was going to these parties where I used to be ignored and then all of a sudden people are paying attention to me.