Quotes
Quotes about Flattery
I come not
To hear such flattery now, and in my presence.
'T is 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.
The man that lays his hand upon a woman,
Save in the way of kindness, is a wretch
Whom 't were gross flattery to name a coward.
Ne'er
Was flattery lost on poet's ear;
A simple race! they waste their toil
For the vain tribute of a smile.
Imitation is the sincerest flattery.
Few human beings are proof against the implied flattery of rapt attention.
Whenever you commend, add your reasons for doing so; it is this which distinguishes the approbation of a man of sense from the flattery of sycophants and admiration of fools.
Flattery won't hurt you if you don't swallow it.
Between flattery and admiration there often flows a river of contempt.
A little flattery will support a man through great fatigue.
Let flattery, the handmaid of the vices, be far removed (from friendship). [Lat., Assentatio, vitiorum adjutrix, procul amoveatur.]
Imitation is the sincerest of flattery.
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.]
No adulation; 'tis the death of virtue; Who flatters, is of all mankind the lowest Save he who courts the flattery.
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.
What drink'st thou oft, instead of homage sweet, But poisoned flattery?
O that men's ears should be To counsel deaf but not to flattery!
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.
'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.
Flattery was formerly a vice; it has now become the fashion. [Lat., Pessimum genus inimicorum laudantes.]
We sometimes imagine we hate flattery, but we only hate the way we are flattered.
Nature has hardly formed a woman ugly enough to be insensible to flattery upon her person.
Flattery is all right if you don't inhale.
Flattery will get you everywhere.
Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt of, not swallowed.
