"The greatest sign of flattery is imitation," O'Dowd says. From Wordnik.com. [USATODAY.com - Beane chooses to see opportunity] Reference
I do not say that in flattery, but believing it to be true. From Wordnik.com. [Canada's Position in the Empire] Reference
Oh well. they say the highest form of flattery is impersonation. From Wordnik.com. [Think Progress » Matalin Defends Coulter’s Attack on 9/11 Widows] Reference
Now that the blatant flattery is out of the way, on to nicknames. From Wordnik.com. [What’s In A (Nick)Name? | Her Bad Mother] Reference
Manipulation through flattery is sometimes innocuous and sometimes sinister. From Wordnik.com. [An Interview with Martha Stout] Reference
In contrast, flattery is extreme, and appeals to our egos in unrealistic ways. From Wordnik.com. [An Interview with Martha Stout] Reference
I think flattery is the preferred method, though, publishing budgets being what they are. From Wordnik.com. [Swag-gering] Reference
Tartar khans of the house of Zingis appears to be founded in flattery rather than in truth. From Wordnik.com. [The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire] Reference
They say flattery is the way to a woman's heart -- and imitation is the sincerest form of flattery!. From Wordnik.com. ['Man up, Harry Reid!' Mama Grizzlies and our manliness recession] Reference
Of all flattery, self-flattery is the worst, and self-applause is seldom any better than self-flattery and self-deceit. From Wordnik.com. [Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation)] Reference
146 The young man had evidently “kissed the Blarney stone”; but the flattery is the more telling as he speaks from the heart. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night] Reference
Princes cannot always judge of the affections of their people by their applauses; flattery is one thing, and true loyalty is another. From Wordnik.com. [Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation)] Reference
Sincere compliments from a coworker or a boss are nice, but outrageous flattery is often an attempt to draw you into a sociopath's snare. From Wordnik.com. [An Interview with Martha Stout] Reference
Anything less than this is not "flattery" - just cite me is all I'm asking. From Wordnik.com. [Flattery or Theft?] Reference
For a moment I thought the flattery was a mistake. From Wordnik.com. [When The Bough Breaks]
It's only February, however, and they're not interested in flattery. From Wordnik.com. [USATODAY.com - Basketball - Dallas vs. Minnesota] Reference
In programming languages, the greatest long-term flattery is imitation :-). From Wordnik.com. [Site Home] Reference
A part of a not very creditable whole, which may be termed flattery, is the reply. From Wordnik.com. [Gorgias] Reference
And it could hardly be called flattery, for Mr. Solomon Aram much valued the services of. From Wordnik.com. [Orley Farm] Reference
Old men like flattery, there is no doubt, and that kind of flattery which is called attention. From Wordnik.com. [Varney the vampire; or, The feast of blood. Volume 2] Reference
SOCRATES: And is not that the sort of thing, Callicles, which we were just now describing as flattery?. From Wordnik.com. [Gorgias] Reference
Banish flattery, which is the nurse of vice, and listen to the voice of that most excellent of all virtues, justice. From Wordnik.com. [The Roman History of Ammianus Marcellinus During the Reigns of the Emperors Constantius, Julian, Jovianus, Valentinian, and Valens] Reference
Iris, to spare what you call flattery. From Wordnik.com. [The Lady's Looking-Glass, To Dress Herself by: or The Art of Charming] Reference
Do not placate me with the pretense of "flattery"!. From Wordnik.com. [Flattery or Theft?] Reference
But that kind of flattery does not get into our heads. From Wordnik.com. [INTERVIEW WITH MAYIBUYE ON THE CURRENT SITUATION IN SOUTH AFRICA AND SOUTHERN AFRICA IN GENERAL, 1984(1)] Reference
The American electorate has always demanded this kind of flattery from its rulers. From Wordnik.com. [Matthew Yglesias » Obama’s Car Invention Myth] Reference
9. live for ever -- A preface of flattery is closely akin to the cruelty that follows. From Wordnik.com. [Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible] Reference
Throughout the Gorgias, Socrates constantly refers to speechifying before the public as 'flattery'. From Wordnik.com. [On Plato's Gorgias] Reference
Such flattery is incredible! —. From Wordnik.com. [The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire] Reference
That was precisely the kind of flattery pleasing to Elizabeth. From Wordnik.com. [The Daughter of an Empress] Reference
This fits neatly in Timothy Noah's beat-sweetener chart under "flattery". From Wordnik.com. [CJR] Reference
She certainly paid him the most dangerous kind of flattery, because it was indirect. From Wordnik.com. [Ernest Linwood or, The Inner Life of the Author] Reference
This kind of flattery is of most mischievous consequence, and of very easy effect: 1. From Wordnik.com. [Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. V.] Reference
Phocion, had abjured every kind of flattery, to adhere to the rigid language of friendship. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Private Life, Return, and Reign of Napoleon in 1815, Vol. II] Reference
Don't be vain, madam, for I take this to be a kind of flattery to me, or to be so intended. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of Aaron Burr, Complete] Reference
Meldon was susceptible to this kind of flattery, and he felt that he deserved a little praise. From Wordnik.com. [The Simpkins Plot] Reference
Can the word 'flattery' be used with the word 'enough'? ". From Wordnik.com. [Heartfire]
"That is the kind of flattery no man may shut his ears to. From Wordnik.com. [A Splendid Hazard] Reference
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