Flattery Quotes

317 Flattery quotes by 206 unique authors

In order that all men may be taught to speak truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it; for no species… — Samuel Johnson
It is scarcely credible to what degree discernment may be dazzled by the mist of pride, and wisdom infatuated by the intoxication of flattery. — Samuel Johnson
Just praise is only a debt, but flattery is a present. The acknowledgment of those virtues on which conscience congratulates us is a tribute that… — Samuel Johnson
The mischief of flattery is, not that it persuades any man that he is what he is not, but that it suppresses the influence of… — Samuel Johnson
Men who stand in the highest ranks of society seldom hear of their faults; if by any accident an opprobrious clamour reaches their ears, flattery… — Samuel Johnson
Few men survey themselves with so much severity as not to admit prejudices in their own favour, which an artful flatterer may gradually strengthen, till… — Samuel Johnson
Cooking is a form of flattery....a mischievous, deceitful, mean and ignoble activity, which cheats us by shapes and colors, by smoothing and draping.... — Plato
Let flattery, the handmaid of the vices, be far removed . — Marcus Tullius Cicero
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… — Oliver Goldsmith
No adulation; 'tis the death of virtue; Who flatters, is of all mankind the lowest Save he who courts the flattery. — Hannah More
By flatterers besieged And so obliging that he ne'er obliged. — Alexander Pope
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.… — William Shakespeare
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… — William Shakespeare
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,… — William Shakespeare
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.… — William Shakespeare
What drink'st thou oft, instead of homage sweet, But poisoned flattery? — William Shakespeare
O that men's ears should be To counsel deaf but not to flattery! — William Shakespeare
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… — William Shakespeare
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… — William Shakespeare
Where Young must torture his invention To flatter knaves, or lose his pension. — Jonathan Swift
Flattery was formerly a vice; it has now become the fashion. — Publilius Syrus
We sometimes imagine we hate flattery, but we only hate the way we are flattered. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Nature has hardly formed a woman ugly enough to be insensible to flattery upon her person. — Lord Chesterfield
Flattery will get you everywhere. — Mae West
It is easy to flatter; it is harder to praise. — Jean Paul

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