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.

- Hank Ketcham

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

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

- Fulton J. Sheen

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

- Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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

- Francois de La Rochefoucauld

You cannot 'rationalize' what is not rational to begin with - as if lying were called 'truthization.' There is no way to obtain more truth for a proposition by bribery, flattery, or the most passionate argument - you can make more people believe the proposition, but you cannot make it more true.

- Eliezer Yudkowsky

Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.

- Edmund Burke

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.

- Edith Sitwell

The best form of flattery is to be admired, imitated or respected. I've always felt proud our fans look up to us or feel we are inspirational.

- Cheryl James

Knavery and flattery are blood relations.

- Abraham Lincoln

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

- Carroll O'Connor

They say imitation is the best form of flattery. That is particularly the case if you're a U.S. presidential candidate and pundits are likening you to a conservative giant like Ronald Reagan.

- Chuck Norris

Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.

- Charles Caleb Colton

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

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

- Benjamin Disraeli

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

- Baruch Spinoza

I know imitation is the highest form of flattery, but stealing one's identity is totally different.

- AnnaLynne McCord

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

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

- Adlai E. Stevenson