Flattery - Maxioms.comQuotes, Famous Quotes, Sayings, Proverbs, Maxims, Axioms, Maxiomshttp://www.maxioms.comen-usCopyright 2026 Maxioms.com. All Rights Reserved.<![CDATA[He that loves to be flattered is worthy o' the flatterer. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64941<![CDATA[It is better to fall among crows than flatterers; for those devour only the dead--these the living. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16202<![CDATA[Young men think old men are fools, but old men know young men are fools. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16195<![CDATA[The best way to convince a fool that he is wrong is to let him have his own way. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16196<![CDATA[Flattery is from the teeth out. Sincere appreciation is from the heart out. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16197<![CDATA[A fool can no more see his own folly than he can see his ears. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16198<![CDATA[Nobody can describe a fool to the life, without much patient self-inspection. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16199<![CDATA[Knavery and flattery are blood relations. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16200<![CDATA[Let us be thankful for the fools; but for them the rest of us could not succeed. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16201<![CDATA[When Fortune flatters, she does it to betray. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16180<![CDATA[We sometimes imagine we hate flattery, but we only hate the way we are flattered. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16181<![CDATA[If you can't love, learn how to flatter. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16182<![CDATA[Nature has hardly formed a woman ugly enough to be insensible to flattery upon her person. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16183<![CDATA[What really flatters a man is that you think him worth flattering. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16184<![CDATA[Flattery is all right if you don't inhale. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16185<![CDATA[Flattery will get you everywhere. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16186<![CDATA[Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt of, not swallowed. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16187<![CDATA[None are more taken in with flattery than the proud, who wish to be the first and are not. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16188<![CDATA[Just praise is only a debt, but flattery is a present. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16189<![CDATA[It is easy to flatter; it is harder to praise. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16190<![CDATA[Fools grow without watering. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16191<![CDATA[To be a man's own fool is bad enough; but the vain man is everybody's. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16192<![CDATA[Always let your flattery be seen through for what really flatters a man is that you think him worth flattering. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16193<![CDATA[Avoid flatterers, for they are thieves in disguise. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16194<![CDATA[If he be so resolved, I can o'ersway him; for he loves to hear That unicorns may be betrayed ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16170<![CDATA[By God, I cannot flatter, I do defy The tongues of soothers! but a braver place In my heart's ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16171<![CDATA[What drink'st thou oft, instead of homage sweet, But poisoned flattery? ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16172<![CDATA[O that men's ears should be To counsel deaf but not to flattery! ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16173<![CDATA[They do not abuse the king that flatter him. For flattery is the bellows blows up sin; The thing ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16174<![CDATA[Take no repulse, whatever she doth say; For 'get you gone,' she doth not mean 'away.' Flatter and praise, ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16175<![CDATA[What really flatters a man is that you think him worth flattering. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16176<![CDATA['Tis an old maxim in the schools, That flattery's the food of fools; Yet now and then your men ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16177<![CDATA[Where Young must torture his invention To flatter knaves, or lose his pension. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16178<![CDATA[Flattery was formerly a vice; it has now become the fashion. [Lat., Pessimum genus inimicorum laudantes.] ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16179<![CDATA[The skilful class of flatterers praise the discourse of an ignorant friend and the face of a deformed one. [Lat., ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16161<![CDATA[We sometimes think that we hate flattery, but we only hate the manner in which it is done. [Fr., On ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16162<![CDATA[Gallantry of mind consists in saying flattering things in an agreeable manner. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16163<![CDATA[No adulation; 'tis the death of virtue; Who flatters, is of all mankind the lowest Save he who courts ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16164<![CDATA[They who delight to be flattered, pay for their folly by a late repentance. [Lat., Qu se laudari gaudent verbis ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16165<![CDATA[By flatterers besieged And so obliging that he ne'er obliged. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16166<![CDATA[It is easier and handier for men to flatter than to praise. [Ger., Es ist dem Menschen leichter und gelaufiger, ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16167<![CDATA[Mine eyes Were not in fault, for she was beautiful; Mine ears, that heard her flattery; nor my heart, ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16168<![CDATA[Nay, do not think I flatter. For what advancement may I hope from thee, That no revenue hast but ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16169<![CDATA[I once had a rose named after me and I was very flattered. But I was not pleased to read ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16149<![CDATA[A woman's flattery may inflate a man's head a little; but her criticism goes straight to his heart, and contracts ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16150<![CDATA[Flattery is telling the other person precisely what he thinks about himself ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16151<![CDATA[Flattery is like friendship in show, but not in fruit ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16152<![CDATA[Flattery is all right so long as you don't inhale. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16153<![CDATA[Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt of, not swallowed ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16154<![CDATA[Flattery is the worst and falsest way of showing our esteem ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16155