flattery造句31) Men are often reached by flattery.
32) With a little flattery I might persuade him to do the job.
33) She used flattery to worm her way/herself into his confidence.
34) Just remember—flattery will get you nowhere. There's no use trying to be nice to me so I'll give you what you want.
35) Flattery will get you nowhere / anywhere you wish to go.
36) Insecure people are often easily swayed by flattery.
37) And officialdom shows disturbing signs of believing the flattery.
38) Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.Edmund Burke
39) Tolkien probably did not approve, thinking this mere flattery.
40) Flattery indeed. Other manufacturers should follow suit!
41) Knavery and flattery are blood relations.Abraham Lincoln
42) The President, once contemptuous of flattery, now submitted to it; enjoyed it, even.
43) Well, that's a form of flattery - I accept the compliment.
44) Flattery and insults raise the same question: What do you want?Mason Cooley
45) Just praise is only a debt, but flattery is a present.Samuel Johnson
46) Bored dowagers with wisps snuggling on the shoulders, whispering flattery and malicious rumour in their perfectly sculpted ears.
47) The difference between appreciation and flattery? That is simple. One is sincere and the other insincere. One comes from the heart out; the other from the teeth out. One is unselfish; the other selfish. One is universally admired; the other universally condemned.Dale Carnegie
48) We may succumb to flattery because it makes us feel good.
49) Men enjoy listening to flattery, and are more likely to be nice to and do things for those who compliment them.Dr T.P.Chia
50) Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt, not swallowed.Josh Billings
51) With subtle flattery she had gradually been accepted by the housekeeper.
52) Positive criticism is a good friend. Insincere flattery is a fake friend.Dr T.P.Chia
53) This proud, but humiliated, most complicated of politicians was not averse to flattery.
54) Flattery is like friendship in show, but not in fruit.Socrates
55) If imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, what should we make of a band like the Replicants?
56) O, that men's ears should be To counsel deaf, but not to flattery!William Shakespeare
57) I'll choose the best person for the job, so flattery will get you nowhere.
58) But if imitation is the sincerest form of flattery,[http:///flattery.html] O'Neill knows it is no guarantee of success.
59) Nothing in this world is harder than speaking the truth, nothing easier than flattery.Fyodor Dostoyevsky
60) She used a mixture of persuasion and flattery to get what she wanted.