FLATTERY QUOTES IV

quotations about flattery

No flatterer can be a good friend. A more wily and dangerous enchanter does not exist on the face of the earth, and yet it is the very life and soul of the fashionable world, for when it is absent the atmosphere is filled with vapors and complaints.

HENRY F. KLETZING & ELMER L. KLETZING

"Flattery", Traits of Character Illustrated in Bible Light


Sweet words are like honey, a little may refresh, but too much gluts the stomach.

ANNE BRADSTREET

Meditations Divine and Moral


Persons who discover a flatterer, do not always disapprove him, because he imagines them considerable enough to deserve his applications.

WILLIAM SHENSTONE

Essays on Men and Manners


If it have an object, then flattery is the taking crafty advantage of weakness, which honor holds odious.

JAMES VILA BLAKE

Essays


Flattery is refined deception--it is the froth of language--it is the alcohol of social intercourse--it is the prescription of the subtle--and the nectar of fools.

WILLIAM SCOTT DOWNEY

Proverbs


It is very easy to discern flattery in most people, but to discern its motives, requires an uncommon depth of penetration.

NORMAN MACDONALD

Maxims and Moral Reflections


In the best, the friendliest and simplest relations flattery or praise is necessary, just as grease is necessary to keep wheels turning.

LEO TOLSTOY

War and Peace


All men are susceptible of flattery: its reception is neither precarious nor doubtful, when once the proper channel of communication is explored.

NORMAN MACDONALD

Maxims and Moral Reflections


Some men however, want more home flattery to keep them tolerably happy and up to the mark than any woman with a soul to be saved by truth can give.

ELIZA LYNN LINTON

"Flattery", The Girl of the Period and Other Social Essays