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

Sheen, Fulton John on Flattery
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"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."

Swift, Jonathan on Manners
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"Just praise is only a debt, but flattery is a present."

Johnson, Samuel on Flattery
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"Flattery is a form of hatred."

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

Billings, Josh on Flattery
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"Flattery is all right if you don't inhale."

Stevenson, Adlai E. on Flattery
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"Listening, not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery."

Brothers, Dr. Joyce on Listening
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"Flattery makes friends and truth makes enemies."

Proverb, Spanish on Flattery
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