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Knavery and flattery are blood relations.

Abraham Lincoln

He who says he hates every kind of flattery, and says it in earnest, certainly does not yet know every kind of flattery.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

Said I was beautiful, did he? He's being paid for treatment, not flattery.

The flattery is nice, but awards don't add up to writing quality songs.

Chantal Kreviazuk

Flattery is like chewing gum. Enjoy it but don't swallow it.

Imitation is the sincerest flattery.

Mohandas Gandhi

Advertising - a judicious mixture of flattery and threats.

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

Everyone likes flattery; and when you come to Royalty you should lay it on with a trowel.

Benjamin Disraeli

To ask advice is in nine cases out of ten to tout for flattery.

John Churton Collins

I trust it will not be giving away professional secrets to say that many readers would be surprised, perhaps shocked, at the questions which some newspaper editors will put to a defenseless woman under the guise of flattery.

Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.

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

The flattery of posterity is not worth much more than contemporary flattery, which is worth nothing.

Jorge Luis Borges

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