Flattery
Flattery (also called adulation or blandishment) is the act of giving excessive compliments, generally for the purpose of ingratiating oneself with the subject.
Read more about Flattery.
Famous quotes containing the word flattery:
“I recommend to you, in my last, an innocent piece of art: that of flattering people behind their backs, in presence of those who, to make their own court, much more than for your sake, will not fail to repeat, and even amplify, the praise to the party concerned. This is of all flattery the most pleasing, and consequently the most effectual.”
—Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694–1773)
“There is flattery in friendship.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“Baloney is flattery laid on so thick it cannot be true, and blarney is flattery so thin we love it.”
—Fulton J. Sheen (1895–1979)