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Woe unto you, when all men shall speak well of you!—Bible, Luke 6:26
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And wrinkles (the damned democrats) won't flatter.—BYRON, Don Juan
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There is no greater bane to friendship than adulation, fawning, and flattery.—CICERO, De Amicitia
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To ask advice is in nine cases out of ten to tout for flattery.—CHURTON COLLINS, Maxims
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'Tis hard to find a man of great estate,
That can distinguish flatterers from friends.—HORACE
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Madam, before you flatter a man so grossly to his face, you should consider whether your flattery is worth his having.—SAMUEL JOHNSON
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Men are not flattered by being shown that there has been a difference of purpose between the Almighty and them.—LINCOLN
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Flatterers haunt not cottages.—Proverb
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He that rewards flattery, begs it.—Proverb
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He that is open to flattery is fenced against admonition.—Proverb
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If we did not flatter ourselves, nobody else could.—Proverb
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Flattery displays a braver flag than humility.—Proverb
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Flattery sits in the parlour, when plain dealing is kicked out of doors.—Proverb
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Lay not that flattering unction to your soul.—SHAKESPEARE, Hamlet
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No; let the candied tongue lick absurd pomp,
And crook the pregnant hinges of the knee
Where thrift may follow fawning.—SHAKESPEARE, Hamlet
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But when I tell him he hates flatterers,
He says he does, being then most flattered.—SHAKESPEARE, Julius Caesar
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Flattery is like friendship in show, but not in fruit.—SOCRATES
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None are more taken in by flattery than the proud, who wish to be the first and are not.—SPINOZA, Ethics
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Among all the diseases of the mind there is not one more epidemical or more pernicious than the love of flattery.—SIR RICHARD STEELE, The Spectator
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'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.—SWIFT, Cadenus and Vanessa
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Self-love is the greatest of all flatterers.—VOLTAIRE
