#Flattery Quotes

“They told me I was everything. 'Tis a lie, I am not ague-proof.”

“Twas never merry world Since lowly feigning was called compliment.”

“Hide not thy poison with such sugar'd words”

“There is flattery in friendship.”

“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”

“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.”

“He does me double wrongThat wounds me with the flatteries of his tongue.”

“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.”

“They lie deadly that tell you have good faces.”

“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”

“What drink'st thou oft, instead of homage sweet, But poisoned flattery?”

“We make ourselves fools to disport ourselves And spend our flatteries to drink those men Upon whose age we void it up again With poisonous spite and envy.”

“But here's the joy: my friend and I are one, Sweet flattery!”

“He that loves to be flattered is worthy o' the flatterer.”

“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?”

“You know That I do fawn on men, and hug them hard, And after scandal them.”

“Live loath'd and long,Most smiling, smooth, detested parasites,Courteous destroyers, affable wolves, meek bears,You fools of fortune, trencher friends, time fliesCap and knee slaves, vapors, and minute jacks.”

“Should the poor be flattered? No; let the candied tongue lick absurd pomp, and crook the pregnant hinges of the knee where thrift may follow fawning.”

“Lay not that flattering unction to your soul, That not your trespass but my madness speaks.”

“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.”

“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.”

“O that men's ears should be To counsel deaf but not to flattery!”

“Women are hard and proud and stubborn-hearted,Their heads being turned with praise and flattery;And that is why their lovers are afraidTo tell them a plain story.”

“I will praise any man that will praise me.”

“Oh, flatter me; for love delights in praises.”

“Let those flatter, who fear: it is not an American art. To give praise where it is not due, might be well from the venal, but would ill beseem those who are asserting the rights of human nature.”

“The customer is the immediate jewel of our souls. Him we flatter, him we feast, compliment, vote for, and will not contradict.”

“We love flattery, even though we are not deceived by it, because it shows that we are of importance enough to be courted.”

“Though flattery blossoms like friendship, yet there is a vast difference in the fruit.”

“Flattery is like a painted armor; only for show.”

“Flattery is like friendship in show, but not in fruit.”

“My dear young lady, there was a great deal of truth; I dare say, in what you said, and you looked very pretty while you said it, which is much more important.”

“Would you be in any way offended if I said that you seem to me to be in every way the visible personification of absolute perfection?”

“Revile those who flatter you.”

“Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery that mediocrity can pay to greatness.”

“We despise no source that can pay us a pleasing attention.”

“A dozen direct censures are easier to bear than one morganatic compliment.”

“Imitation is the sincerest flattery.”

“He who knows how to flatter also knows how to slander.”

“The most that can be said of flattery is that it is sometimes a cheap psychological trick with which charlatans and dishonest people lull others into a state of carelessness while they pick their pockets.”

“There is no other way to guard yourself against flattery than by making men understand that telling you the truth will not offend you.”

“When your friends begin to flatter you on how young you look, it's a sure sign you're getting old.”

“Flatterers and men of learning do not accord well with each other.”

“Compliments make me vain: & when I am vain, I am insolent & overbearing. It is a pity, too, because I love compliments. I love them even when they are not so. My child, I can live on a good compliment two weeks with nothing else to eat.”

“Let flattery, the handmaid of the vices, be far removed .”

“He who can not learn to love must flatter.”

“Let flattery, the handmaid of the vices, be far removed (from friendship).[Lat., Assentatio, vitiorum adjutrix, procul amoveatur.]”

“Flattery will get you everywhere.”

“All panegyrics are mingled with an infusion of poppy.”

“Where Young must torture his invention To flatter knaves, or lose his pension.”