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

Sheen, Fulton John on flattery   

"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."

Swift, Jonathan on manners   

"Just praise is only a debt, but flattery is a present."

Johnson, Samuel on flattery   

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"Flattery is a form of hatred."

Bible on flattery   

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

Billings, Josh on flattery
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"Flattery is all right if you don't inhale."

Stevenson, Adlai E. on flattery   

"Listening, not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery."

Brothers, Dr. Joyce on listening
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"Flattery makes friends and truth makes enemies."

Proverb, Spanish on flattery
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