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Flattery Quotes. To ask for advice is in nine cases out of ten to tout for flattery. John Churton Collins What really flatters a man is that you think him worth flattering. George Bernard Shaw He who cannot love must learn to flatter. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe It is possible to be below flattery as well as above it. Thomas Babington Macaulay Flattery is all right - if you don't inhale. Adlai Stevenson Everyone likes flattery; and when you come to Royalty you should lay it on with a trowel. Benjamin Disraeli Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver. Edmund Burke 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. Jonathan Swift When your friends begin to flatter you on how young you look, it's a sure sign you're getting old. Mark Twain Many know how to flatter, few know how to praise. Wendell Phillips Flatterers look like friends, as wolves like dogs. George Chapman |