Flattery

Imitation is the sincerest of flattery.

— Flattery

I would give worlds, could I believeWhen Flattery has caress'd me.

— Flattery

Mine eyesTo have mistrusted her.

— Flattery

Why should the poor be flatter'd?Where thrift may follow fawning.

— Flattery

By God, I cannot flatter: I do defyNay, task me to my word; approve me, lord.

— Flattery

What drink'st thou oft, instead of homage sweet,But poison'd flattery?

— Flattery

But when I tell him he hates flatterers,He says he does, being then most flattered.

— Flattery

They do abuse the king that flatter him:For flattery is the bellows blows up sin.

— Flattery

O, that men's ears should beTo counsel deaf, but not to flattery!

— Flattery

Take no repulse, whatever she doth say;If with his tongue he cannot win a woman.

— Flattery

Of folly, vice, disease, men proud we see;By spitting on your face, to make it clean.

— Flattery

With your own heart confer;And dread even there to find a flatterer.

— Flattery

It has been well said that "the arch-flatterer with whom all the petty flatterers have intelligence is a man's self."

— Flattery

Of praise a mere glutton, he swallow'd what came,Who pepper'd the highest was surest to please.

— Flattery

Gallantry of mind consists in saying flattering things in an agreeable manner.

— Flattery

No adulation; 'tis the death of virtue;Save he who courts the flattery.

— Flattery

Their throat is an open sepulchre; they flatter with their tongue.

— Flattery

'Tis an old maxim in the schools,Will condescend to take a bit.

— Flattery

Where Young must torture his inventionTo flatter knaves, or lose his pension.

— Flattery