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The most dangerous of all flattery is the inferiority of those about us. - Madame Anne Sophie Swetchine (Soimonoff) Flattery is the worst and falsest way of showing our esteem. - Jonathan Swift Nothing is so great an instance of ill-manners as flattery. - Jonathan Swift The love of flattery in most men proceeds from the mean opinion they have of themselves; in women, from the contrary. - Jonathan Swift '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. - Jonathan Swift, Cadenus and Vanessa (l. 769) Where Young must torture his invention To flatter knaves, or lose his pension. - Jonathan Swift, Poetry, a Rhapsody (l. 279) Flattery, which was formerly a vice, is now grown into a custom. - Syrus (Publilius Syrus) Flattery was formerly a vice; it has now become the fashion. [Lat., Pessimum genus inimicorum laudantes.] - Syrus (Publilius Syrus), Maxims When Fortune flatters, she does it to betray. - Syrus (Publilius Syrus), Maxims Flattery labors under the odious charge of servility. - Tacitus (Caius Cornelius Tacitus) People flatter us because they can depend upon our credulity. - Tacitus (Caius Cornelius Tacitus) Flatterers are the worst kind of enemies. [Lat., Pessimum genus inimicorum laudantes.] - Tacitus (Caius Cornelius Tacitus), Agricola (XLI) The rich man despises those who flatter him too much, and hates those who do not flatter him at all. - Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Perigord This barren verbiage current among men, Light coin, the tinsel clink of compliment. - Lord Alfred Tennyson If you had told Sycorax that her son Caliban was as handsome as Apollo, she would have been pleased, witch as she was. - William Makepeace Thackeray No man flatters the woman he truly loves. - Henry Theodore Tuckerman Know thyself, thy evil as thy good, and flattery shall not harm thee; yea, her speech shall be a warning, a humbling, and a guide. For wherein thou lackest most, there chiefly will the sycophant commend thee. - Martin Farquhar Tupper Flattery is like base coin; it impoverishes him who receives it. - Madame Voillez Flatterers are but the shadows of princes' bodies; the least thick cloud makes them invisible. - John Webster Sirs, adulation, is a fatal thing-- Rank poison for a subject, or a king. - Dr. John Wolcot (Wolcott or Woolcott) (used pseudonym Peter Pindar) See how they beg an alms of flattery! - Edward Young Of folly, vice, disease, men proud we see; And, (stranger still,) of blockheads' flattery; Whose praise defames; as if a fool should mean, By spitting on your face, to make it clean. - Edward Young, Love of Fame (satire I, l. 755) With you own heart confer; And dread even there to find a flatterer. - Edward Young, Love of Fame (satire VI) Displaying page 6 of 6 for this topic: << Prev 1 2 3 4 5 [6]
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