Flattery

The more we love our friends the less we flatter them it is by excusing nothing that pure love shows itself.

Moliere

Advertising - a judicious mixture of flattery and threats.

Northrop Frye

It flattered her, where she was most susceptible of flattery, to think how, wound about in their hearts, however long they lived she would be woven...

Virginia Woolf

Men are so conceited they’ll believe anything that flatters them.

Margaret Mitchell

One-year-olds learn concealment. Five-year-olds lie outright: they manipulate via flattery. Nine-year-olds - masters of the cover-up. By the time you...

Pamela Meyer

... When editors were flattered, they would sometimes give in on some of their mad ideas.

Stephen King

When a cat flatters ... He is not insincere: you may safely take it for real kindness.

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