It
has been well said that "the arch-flatterer with whom all the petty flatterers have intelligence is a man's self."
Author: Source: None | For there is no faithfulness
in their mouth; their inward part is very wickedness; their throat is an open sepulchre; they flatter with their tongue.
Author: Bible Source: Psalms (ch. V, v.
9) | Let
flattery, the handmaid of the vices, be far removed (from friendship). [Lat., Assentatio, vitiorum adjutrix, procul amoveatur.]
Author: Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero) Source: De Amicitia (XXIV)
| Imitation is
the sincerest of flattery. Author: Charles Caleb Colton Source: Lacon (p. 127)
| Of praise a
mere glutton, he swallow'd what came, And the puff a dunce, he mistook it for fame; Till his relish grown callous, almost
to displease, Who pepper'd the highest was surest to please. Author: Oliver Goldsmith Source: Retaliation (l. 109)
| The skilful
class of flatterers praise the discourse of an ignorant friend and the face of a deformed one. [Lat., Adulandi gens prudentissima
laudat Sermonem indocti, faciem deformis amici.] Author: Juvenal (Decimus Junius Juvenal) Source: Satires (III, 86)
| We sometimes
think that we hate flattery, but we only hate the manner in which it is done. [Fr., On croit quelquefoir hair la flatterie;
maid on ne hait que a maniere de flatter.] Author: Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld Source: Maximes (329)
| Gallantry of
mind consists in saying flattering things in an agreeable manner. Author: Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld Source: Maxims (103)
| No adulation;
'tis the death of virtue; Who flatters, is of all mankind the lowest Save he who courts the flattery. Author: Hannah More Source: Daniel | They who delight to be flattered,
pay for their folly by a late repentance. [Lat., Qu se laudari gaudent verbis subdolis, Sera dant peonas turpes poenitentia.]
Author: Phaedrus (Thrace of Macedonia) Source: Fables (I, 13, 1)
| By flatterers
besieged And so obliging that he ne'er obliged. Author: Alexander Pope Source: Prologue to Satires
(l. 207) | It
is easier and handier for men to flatter than to praise. [Ger., Es ist dem Menschen leichter und gelaufiger, zu schmeicheln
als zu loben.] Author: Jean Paul Richter Source: Titan (zykel 34)
| Mine eyes Were
not in fault, for she was beautiful; Mine ears, that heard her flattery; nor my heart, That thought her like her seeming.
It had been vicious To have mistrusted her. Author: William Shakespeare Source: Cymbeline (Cymbeline
at V, v) | Nay,
do not think I flatter. For what advancement may I hope from thee, That no revenue hast but thy good spirits To feed and clothe
thee? Why should the poor be flattered? No, let the candied tongue like absurd pomp, And crook the pregnant hinges of the
knee Where thrift may follow fawning. Author: William Shakespeare Source: Hamlet Prince of
Denmark (Hamlet at III, ii) | If he be so resolved, I can o'ersway him; for he loves to hear That unicorns may be betrayed with trees And bears
with glasses, elephants with holes, Lions with toils, and men with flatterers, He says he does, being then most flattered.
Author: William Shakespeare Source: Julius Caesar (Decius
at II, i) | By
God, I cannot flatter, I do defy The tongues of soothers! but a braver place In my heart's love hath no man than yourself.
Nay, task me to my word; approve me, lord. Author: William Shakespeare Source: King Henry the Fourth,
Part I (Hotspur at IV, i) | What drink'st thou oft, instead of homage sweet, But poisoned flattery? Author: William Shakespeare Source: The Life of King
Henry the Fifth (King Henry at IV, i) | O that men's ears should be To counsel deaf but not to flattery! Author: William Shakespeare Source: The Life of Timon
of Athens (Apemantus at I, ii) | They do not abuse the king that flatter him. For flattery is the bellows blows up sin; The thing the which is
flattered, but a spark To which that blast gives heat and stronger glowing; Whereas reproof, obedient and in order, Fits kings
as they are men, for they may err. Author: William Shakespeare Source: Pericles Prince of
Tyre (Helicanus at I, ii) | Take no repulse, whatever she doth say; For 'get you gone,' she doth not mean 'away.' Flatter and praise, commend,
extol their graces; Though ne'er so black, say they have angels' faces. That man that hath a tongue, I say is no man, If with
his tongue he cannot win a woman. Author: William Shakespeare Source: The Two Gentlemen
of Verona (Valentine at III, i) | What really flatters a man is that you think him worth flattering. Author: George Bernard Shaw Source: John Bull's Other
Island | 'Tis
an old maxim in the schools, That flattery's the food of fools; Yet now and then your men of wit Will condescend to take a
bit. Author: Jonathan Swift Source: Cadenus and Vanessa
(l. 769) | Where
Young must torture his invention To flatter knaves, or lose his pension. Author: Jonathan Swift Source: Poetry, a Rhapsody
(l. 279) | Flattery
was formerly a vice; it has now become the fashion. [Lat., Pessimum genus inimicorum laudantes.] Author: Syrus (Publilius Syrus) Source: Maxims | When Fortune flatters, she
does it to betray. Author: Syrus (Publilius Syrus) Source: Maxims | We sometimes imagine we hate
flattery, but we only hate the way we are flattered. Author: Francois de la Rochefoucauld Source: None | If you can't love, learn how
to flatter. Author: Anonymous Source: None | Nature has hardly formed a
woman ugly enough to be insensible to flattery upon her person. Author: Lord Chesterfield Source: None | What really flatters a man
is that you think him worth flattering. Author: George Bernard Shaw Source: None | Flattery is all right if you
don't inhale. Author: Adlai E. Stevenson Source: None | Flattery will get you everywhere.
Author: Mae West Source: None | Flattery is like cologne water,
to be smelt of, not swallowed. Author: Josh Billings Source: None | None are more taken in with
flattery than the proud, who wish to be the first and are not. Author: Benedict Spinoza Source: None | Just praise is only a debt,
but flattery is a present. Author: Samuel Johnson Source: None | It is easy to flatter; it
is harder to praise. Author: Jean Paul Richter Source: None | Fools grow without watering.
Author: Thomas Fuller Source: None | To be a man's own fool is
bad enough; but the vain man is everybody's. Author: William Penn Source: None | Always let your flattery be
seen through for what really flatters a man is that you think him worth flattering. Author: George Bernard Shaw Source: None | Avoid flatterers, for they
are thieves in disguise. Author: William Penn Source: None | What the fool does in the
end, the wise man does in the beginning. Author: Proverb Source: None | Young men think old men are
fools, but old men know young men are fools. Author: George Chapman Source: None | The best way to convince a
fool that he is wrong is to let him have his own way. Author: Josh Billings Source: None | Flattery is from the teeth
out. Sincere appreciation is from the heart out. Author: Dale Carnegie Source: None | A fool can no more see his
own folly than he can see his ears. Author: William Makepeace Thackeray Source: None | Nobody can describe a fool
to the life, without much patient self-inspection. Author: Frank Moore Colby Source: None | Knavery and flattery are blood
relations. Author: Abraham Lincoln Source: None | Let us be thankful for the
fools; but for them the rest of us could not succeed. Author: Mark Twain Source: None | It is better to fall among
crows than flatterers; for those devour only the dead--these the living. Author: Antisthenes Source: None |
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