"Because I cannot flatter and look fair,Smile..." - Quote by William Shakespeare
Because I cannot flatter and look fair,Smile in men's faces, smooth, deceive, and cog,Duck with French nods and apish courtesy,I must be held a rancorous enemy.
More by William Shakespeare
“Chain me with roaring bears;Or shut me nightly in a charnel-house,O'er-covered quite with dead men's rattling bones,With reeky shanks and yellow chapless skulls;Or bid me go into a new-made grave,And hide me with a dead man in his shroud;Things that, to hear them told, have made me tremble;And I will do it without Fear or Doubt,To live an unstain'd Wife of my sweet Love.”
“O, had I but followed the arts!”
“But O, how bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes.”
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“You take the lies out of him, and he'll shrink to the size of your hat; you take the malice out of him, and he'll disappear.”
“"I know quite enough of myself," said Bella, with a charming air of being inclined to give herself up as a bad job, "and I don't improve upon acquaintance..."”
“Let there be truth between us.”
More on Flattery
“That's why the army sends all its future generals to what we call "charm school." As soon as you are a general, people think that you know everything. You think yourself that you have become omniscient and omnipotent. Be careful, because people want to do everything they can to please the general, and you need to guard against this.”
“A flatterer never seems absurd: The flatter'd always takes his word.”
“"She's a very charming and delightful creature," quoth Mr. Robert Sawyer, in reply; "and has only one fault that I know of, Ben. It happens, unfortunately, that that single blemish is a want of taste. She don't like me."”