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" Advertising - a judicious mixture of flattery and threats. "
Northrop Frye
" Although I am small, ugly and dirty, I am highly ambitious, and at the slightest flattery, I immediately start to strut like a turkey. "
Italo Calvino
" Am I the only person in the world who is shocked and amazed at the ongoing flattery of uebergeek Mark Zuckerberg? "
Tom Hodgkinson
" Baloney is flattery laid on so thick it cannot be true, and blarney is flattery so thin we love it. "
Fulton J. Sheen
" Between flattery and admiration there often flows a river of contempt. "
Minna Antrim
" Everyone likes flattery; and when you come to Royalty you should lay it on with a trowel. "
Benjamin Disraeli
" Flattery and deceit are the darlings of great men, and so with these men spread the butter on thick, if you want to get something out of them, otherwise you'll come home to me with a full belly and an empty purse. "
Pietro Aretino
" Flattery and insults raise the same question: What do you want? "
Mason Cooley
" Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver. "
Edmund Burke
" Flattery in courtship is the highest insolence, for whilst it pretends to bestow on you more than you deserve, it is watching an opportunity to take from you what you really have. "
Sarah Fielding
" Flattery is a kind of bad money, to which our vanity gives us currency. "
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
" Flattery is all right so long as you don't inhale. "
Adlai E. Stevenson
" Flattery is like chewing gum. Enjoy it but don't swallow it. "
Hank Ketcham
" Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt, not swallowed. "
Josh Billings
" Flattery was one of Kissinger's principal tools in winning over Nixon, and a tool he employed shamelessly. "
Robert Dallek
" Gossip is what you say about the objects of flattery when they aren't present. "
P. J. O'Rourke
" 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
" If we did not flatter ourselves, the flattery of others could never harm us. "
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
" I hate careless flattery, the kind that exhausts you in your efforts to believe it. "
Wilson Mizner
" I have always found it interesting... that there are people who regard copyright infringement as a form of flattery. "
Tom Lehrer
" I know imitation is the highest form of flattery, but stealing one's identity is totally different. "
AnnaLynne McCord
" Imitation is flattery, and The Hills Have Eyes is a classic. "
Michael Berryman
" Imitation is obviously a great form of flattery. "
Peyton Manning
" 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
" Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. "
Charles Caleb Colton
" Immigration is the sincerest form of flattery. "
Jack Paar
" I think people ragging on me is kind of a form of flattery. "
Chord Overstreet
" Knavery and flattery are blood relations. "
Abraham Lincoln
" Listening, not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery. "
Joyce Brothers
" None are more taken in by flattery than the proud, who wish to be the first and are not. "
Baruch Spinoza
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