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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.

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.

Flattery is all right so long as you don't inhale.

Adlai E. Stevenson

None are more taken in by flattery than the proud, who wish to be the first and are not.

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.

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

Fulton J. Sheen

Flattery is a kind of bad money, to which our vanity gives us currency.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

If we did not flatter ourselves, the flattery of others could never harm us.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Immigration is the sincerest form of flattery.

Gossip is what you say about the objects of flattery when they aren't present.

Sheer flattery got me into the theater. Flattery always works with me, particularly the flattery of women.

Carroll O'Connor

A little flattery will support a man through great fatigue.

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.

I hate careless flattery, the kind that exhausts you in your efforts to believe it.

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.