I hate careless flattery, the kind that exhausts you in your effort to believe it.
Source: In Quotations of Wit and Wisdom, ed. & John W. Garder et al., 1975.
-- Wilson Mizner, (May 19 1876-1933), US playwright, author; He was noted for The Only Law, 1909; The Deep Purple, 1910; and The Greyhound, 1912.