Quotations: Compliments, Flattery, Praise

That guy has muscles in places most people don't have places. 
Bucky Waters

The simple lack of her is more to me than others' presence.  
Edward Thomas
Marge, you're as pretty as Princess Leia and as smart as Yoda.  
Homer Simpson
Other men it is said have seen angels, but I have seen thee and thou art enough.  
George Moore
Modesty is the only sure bait when you angle for praise.  
Lord Chesterfield
It is hard to resist a flatterer who gets it right.  
Robert Brault
Flatterers look like friends, as wolves like dogs. 
George Chapman
A compliment is usually accompanied with a bow, as if to beg pardon for paying it.  
A.W. Hare
I can live for two months on a good compliment.  
Mark Twain
What flatterers say, try to make true.  
German Proverb
Pay with compliments and you will always be wealthy.  
Mike Dolan
Some folks pay a compliment like they went down in their pocket for it.  
Kin Hubbard
I hate careless flattery, the kind that exhausts you in your effort to believe it.  
Wilson Mizner

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