Knavery and flattery are blood relations.
Abraham Lincoln
Flattery is all right so long as you don't inhale.
Adlai Stevenson I
I can spot empty flattery and know exactly where I stand. In the end it's really only my own approval or disapproval that means anything.
Agnetha Faltskog
I know imitation is the highest form of flattery, but stealing one's identity is totally different.
AnnaLynne McCord
When self-delusion and self-flattery enter the mind-set of a product team and the metrics they judge themselves by, like the first plague rat coming onto a ship, the end is practically preordained.
Antonio Garcia Martinez
Rapping can be repetition sometimes. Sometimes you gotta highlight your words in a certain kind of way. So I always was a fan of sing-rapping. It was always funny to me a little bit, and I think that being funny and being able to laugh, even at yourself, is a form of flattery.
ASAP Ferg
None are more taken in by flattery than the proud, who wish to be the first and are not.
Baruch Spinoza
Everyone likes flattery; and when you come to Royalty you should lay it on with a trowel.
Benjamin Disraeli
Imitation is the highest form of flattery, but clones kind of get it wrong because we are promoting individuality and being proud of being yourself.
Brian Molko
Sheer flattery got me into the theater. Flattery always works with me, particularly the flattery of women.
Carroll O'Connor
The flattery is nice, but awards don't add up to writing quality songs.
Chantal Kreviazuk
Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.
Charles Caleb Colton
Whenever somebody folds, say, 'Good laydown.' It encourages them to fold on a later hand because it makes them feel like you had the best hand even if you were bluffing. It's an odd form of flattery that seems to work at the poker table.
Cheryl Hines
The best form of flattery is to be admired, imitated or respected. I've always felt proud our fans look up to us or feel we are inspirational.
Cheryl James
I think people ragging on me is kind of a form of flattery.
Chord Overstreet
They say imitation is the best form of flattery. That is particularly the case if you're a U.S. presidential candidate and pundits are likening you to a conservative giant like Ronald Reagan.
Chuck Norris
I do not listen to criticism or flattery, one weakens you and the other angers you.
Diego Simeone
Women in Washington - and in positions of power anywhere - should be subjected to the same criticisms and held to the same standards as men. That does not include the assumption that any successful woman has attained her position through flattery, feminine wiles, or her ability to provide maternal comfort to a more powerful man.
Donna Brazile
The aim of flattery is to soothe and encourage us by assuring us of the truth of an opinion we have already formed about ourselves.
Edith Sitwell
Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.
Edmund Burke
You cannot 'rationalize' what is not rational to begin with - as if lying were called 'truthization.' There is no way to obtain more truth for a proposition by bribery, flattery, or the most passionate argument - you can make more people believe the proposition, but you cannot make it more true.
Flattery is a kind of bad money, to which our vanity gives us currency.
If we did not flatter ourselves, the flattery of others could never harm us.
Baloney is flattery laid on so thick it cannot be true, and blarney is flattery so thin we love it.
He who says he hates every kind of flattery, and says it in earnest, certainly does not yet know every kind of flattery.
Flattery is like chewing gum. Enjoy it but don't swallow it.
A woman's flattery may inflate a man's head a little; but her criticism goes straight to his heart, and contracts it so that it can never again hold quite as much love for her.
L.A. runs on optimism, enthusiasm and flattery. I think you can go a little bit crazy. I've heard people say there's a limit to the number of years you can stay in this city without going slightly mad. It's just too damn sunny in every dimension - weather-wise, socially and professionally.
Although I am small, ugly and dirty, I am highly ambitious, and at the slightest flattery, I immediately start to strut like a turkey.
Immigration is the sincerest form of flattery.
This flattery has been rather slow in coming. I think all of sudden late in life now I'm getting some credit for what I've done. Which is gratifying, but it's kind of a little late.
A little flattery will support a man through great fatigue.
I think I misunderstood the following in the footsteps bit, in a few of my early drinking years. I'd take any form of being compared to Dad as flattery. So if I fell off a stool or smashed up a TV set just because I was drunk, and somebody in the bar went 'Hey, man, that was just like Bonzo!' I would be really happy.
We should keep silent about those in power; to speak well of them almost implies flattery; to speak ill of them while they are alive is dangerous, and when they are dead is cowardly.
The most sincere form of flattery is money.
To ask advice is in nine cases out of ten to tout for flattery.
To pay attention to flattery or criticism is a waste of time for artists.
Nothing is so great an example of bad manners as flattery. If you flatter all the company, you please none; If you flatter only one or two, you offend the rest.
The flattery of posterity is not worth much more than contemporary flattery, which is worth nothing.
Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt, not swallowed.
Listening, not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery.
I trust it will not be giving away professional secrets to say that many readers would be surprised, perhaps shocked, at the questions which some newspaper editors will put to a defenseless woman under the guise of flattery.
My cut is blunt and futuristic, and Nicki Minaj started wearing that bob on her head after she came to my show, so at the end of the day, I know what I do, and I know what I possess, and I know who I am. I'm a trendsetter. The biggest form of flattery is imitation, so I'm flattered.
Said I was beautiful, did he? He's being paid for treatment, not flattery.
The love of one's own sex is precious, for it is neither provoked by vanity nor retained by flattery; it is genuine and sincere.
Flattery and insults raise the same question: What do you want?
A little flattery goes a long way.
Imitation is flattery, and The Hills Have Eyes is a classic.
Between flattery and admiration there often flows a river of contempt.
Advertising - a judicious mixture of flattery and threats.
