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Madam, before you flatter a man so grossly to his face, you should consider whether or not your flattery is worth his having.
Blarney is flattery laid on so thin you love it; baloney is flattery laid on so thick you hate it.
Flattery makes friends and truth makes enemies.
The art of pleasing consists in being pleased.
Just praise is only a debt, but flattery is a present.
Very ugly or very beautiful women should be flattered on their understanding, mediocre ones on their beauty.
I should have praised you more had you praised me less.
Men find it more easy to flatter than to praise.
Of all wild beasts preserve me from a tyrant; and of all time, from a flatterer.
The art of flatterers is to take advantage of the foibles of the great, to foster their errors, and never to give advice which may annoy.
If we would not flatter ourselves, the flattery of others could not harm us.
Flatterers are he worst kind of traitors for they will strengthen thy imperfections, encourage the in all evils, correct thee in nothing, but so shadow and paint all thy vices and follies as thou shalt never, by their will, discern good from evil, or vice from virtue.
Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver; and adulation is not of more service to the people than to kings.
There is an oblique way of reproof, which takes off the sharpness of it, and an address in flattery, which makes it agreeable, though never so gross; but of all flatterers, the most skilful is he who can do what you like, without saying anything which argues he does it for your sake.
He that is much flattered soon learns to flatter himself. We are commonly taught our duty by fear or shame, but how can they act upon a man who hears nothing but his own praises?
Deference before company is the genteelest kind of flattery. The flattery of epistles affects one less, as they cannot be shown without an appearance of vanity. Flattery of the verbal kind is gross. In short, applause is of too coarse a nature to be swallowed in the gross, though the extract of tincture be ever so agreeable.
To be flattered is grateful, even when we know that our praises are not believed by those who pronounce them; for they prove at least our power, and show that our favor is valued, since it is our purchased by the meanness of falsehood.
Flattery is never so agreeable as to our blind side; commend a fool for his wit, or a knave for his honesty, and they will receive you into their bosom.
Flattery, though a base coin, is the necessary pocket-money at court; where, by custom and consent, it has obtained such a currency, that it is no longer a fraudulent, but a legal payment.
Know thyself, thine evil as well as thy good, and flattery shall not harm thee; her speech shall be a warming, a humbling, and a guide; for wherein thou lackest most, there chiefly will thy sycophant command thee.
No man flatters the woman he truly loves.
Adulation is the death of virtue. Who flatters is, of all mankind, the lowest, save he who courts the flattery.
You play the spaniel, and think with wagging of your tongue to win me.
Dr. Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) English author, lexicographer.
Blarney is flattery laid on so thin you love it; baloney is flattery laid on so thick you hate it.
Fulton J.Sheen (1895-1979) American clergyman, author.
Flattery makes friends and truth makes enemies.
Spanish Proverb.
The art of pleasing consists in being pleased.
William Hazlitt (1778-1830) English essayist.
Just praise is only a debt, but flattery is a present.
Very ugly or very beautiful women should be flattered on their understanding, mediocre ones on their beauty.
I should have praised you more had you praised me less.
Men find it more easy to flatter than to praise.
Richter.
Of all wild beasts preserve me from a tyrant; and of all time, from a flatterer.
Ben Jonson.
The art of flatterers is to take advantage of the foibles of the great, to foster their errors, and never to give advice which may annoy.
Moliere.
If we would not flatter ourselves, the flattery of others could not harm us.
Rochefoucauld.
Flatterers are he worst kind of traitors for they will strengthen thy imperfections, encourage the in all evils, correct thee in nothing, but so shadow and paint all thy vices and follies as thou shalt never, by their will, discern good from evil, or vice from virtue.
Sir W. Raleigh.
Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver; and adulation is not of more service to the people than to kings.
Burke.
There is an oblique way of reproof, which takes off the sharpness of it, and an address in flattery, which makes it agreeable, though never so gross; but of all flatterers, the most skilful is he who can do what you like, without saying anything which argues he does it for your sake.
Pope.
He that is much flattered soon learns to flatter himself. We are commonly taught our duty by fear or shame, but how can they act upon a man who hears nothing but his own praises?
Johnson.
Deference before company is the genteelest kind of flattery. The flattery of epistles affects one less, as they cannot be shown without an appearance of vanity. Flattery of the verbal kind is gross. In short, applause is of too coarse a nature to be swallowed in the gross, though the extract of tincture be ever so agreeable.
Shenstone.
To be flattered is grateful, even when we know that our praises are not believed by those who pronounce them; for they prove at least our power, and show that our favor is valued, since it is our purchased by the meanness of falsehood.
Johnson.
Flattery is never so agreeable as to our blind side; commend a fool for his wit, or a knave for his honesty, and they will receive you into their bosom.
Fielding.
Flattery, though a base coin, is the necessary pocket-money at court; where, by custom and consent, it has obtained such a currency, that it is no longer a fraudulent, but a legal payment.
Chesterfield.
Know thyself, thine evil as well as thy good, and flattery shall not harm thee; her speech shall be a warming, a humbling, and a guide; for wherein thou lackest most, there chiefly will thy sycophant command thee.
Tupper.
No man flatters the woman he truly loves.
Tuckerman.
Adulation is the death of virtue. Who flatters is, of all mankind, the lowest, save he who courts the flattery.
H.More.
You play the spaniel, and think with wagging of your tongue to win me.
Shakespeare.
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