Quotes about flattery

Grant me prudently to avoid the flatterer, and patiently to bear with him that opposeth me;

We are delighted to find a person who values us as we value ourselves, and distinguishes us from the rest of mankind, with an attention not unlike that with which we distinguish ourselves.

I know flattery when I hear it; but I do not often hear it.

Nothing in the world is harder than speaking the truth and nothing easier than flattery. If there’s the hundredth part of a false note in speaking the truth, it leads to a discord, and that leads to trouble. But if all, to the last note, is false in flattery, it is just as agreeable, and is heard not without satisfaction. It may be a coarse satisfaction, but still a satisfaction. And however coarse the flattery, at least half will be sure to seem true. That’s so for all stages of development and classes of society.

It is salutary to train oneself to be no more affected by censure than by praise...

People ask you for criticism, but they only want praise.