I believe that love--not imitation--is the sincerest form of flattery. Your imitator thinks that you can be duplicated your lover knows you can't.
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Marilyn Vos Savant
In the best, the friendliest and simplest relations flattery or praise is necessary, just as grease is necessary to keep wheels turning.
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Leo Tolstoy
He shook his head, but I kept flattering him, telling him how fine his beard was, how fair his skin was (ha! ), how it was obvious from his nose and forehead that he wasn't some pig herd who had converted, but a true-blue Muslim...
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Aravind Adiga
After this manner conceive that a flatterer differs from a friend: for it often happens to both that they engage in the same employments and the same associations; but the one differs from the other in use, in the end, and in the disposition of...
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Maximus Tyrius
When a woman has not received much flattery in her life, she will be seduced.
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Melina Marchetta
More Quotes By Bible
Give thanks in all circumstances, for this is God's will for you in Christ Jesus" (1 Thess. 5:18).
Be still and know that I am God!
Yet you do not know what tomorrow will bring. What is your life? For you are a mist that appears for a little time and then vanishes.
Commit your work to the Lord, and then your plans will succeed.” (Proverbs 16:3).
