"What drink'st thou oft, instead of homage..." - Quote by William Shakespeare
What drink'st thou oft, instead of homage sweet, But poisoned flattery?
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“Knavery's plain face is never seen till used.”
“Winding up days with toil and nights with sleep.”
“Withal I did infer your lineaments,Being the right idea of your father,Both in your form and nobleness of mind;Laid open all your victories in Scotland,Your discipline in war, wisdom in peace,Your bounty, virtue, fair humility;Indeed, left nothing fitting for your purposeUntouch'd or slightly handled in discourse.”
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“The lily I condemned for thy hand, And buds of marjoram had stol'n thy hair: The roses fearfully on thorns did stand, One blushing shame, another white despair; A third, nor red nor white, had stol'n of both And to his robbery had annex'd thy breath; But, for his theft, in pride of all his growth A vengeful canker eat him up to death. More flowers I noted, yet I none could see But sweet or colour it had stol'n from thee.”
“If we did not flatter ourselves, the flattery of others could never harm us.”
“Hide not thy poison with such sugar'd words”
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“For Brutus is an honourable man;So are they all, all honourable men.”
“Don't Let them fool you or even try to school you”
“There is nothing in the world more difficult than candor, and nothing easier than flattery. If there is a hundredth of a fraction of a false note to candor, it immediately produces dissonance, and as a result, exposure. But in flattery, even if everything is false down to the last note, it is still pleasant, and people will listen not without pleasure; with coarse pleasure, perhaps, but pleasure nevertheless.”