It is difficult to find any praise for flattery which is mostly considered to be manipulative:
Knavery and flattery are blood relations.
Flattery (also called adulation or blandishme
It is better to fall among crows than flatterers; for those devour the dead only, these the living.
A fool flatters himself, a wise man flatters the fool.
A flatterer is said to be a beast that biteth smiling. But it is hard to know them from friends, they are so obsequious and full of protestations; for as a wolf resembles a dog, so doth a flatterer a friend.
Because all men are apt to flatter themselves, to entertain the addition of other men's praises is most perilous.
Flatterers are the worst kind of traitors, for they will strengthen thy imperfections, encourage thee in all evils, correct thee in nothing, but so shadow and paint thy follies and vices as thou shalt never, by their will, discover good from evil, or vice from virtue.
We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter.
We love flattery, even though we are not deceived by it, because it shows that we are of importance enough to be courted.
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 bosoms.
Flattery is a sort of bad money, to which our vanity gives currency.
It is possible to be below flattery as well as above it. One who trusts nobody will not trust sycophants. One who does not value real glory will not value its counterfeit.
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.
No adulation; 'tis the death of virtue;
Who flatters, is of all mankind the lowest
Save he who courts the flattery.
No flatt'ry, boy! an honest man can't live by't;
It is a little sneaking art, which knaves
Use to cajole and soften fools withal.
If thou hast flatt'ry in thy nature, out with't;
Or send it to a court, for there 'twill thrive.
Blinded as they are to their true character by self-love, every man is his own first and chiefest flatterer, prepared, therefore, to welcome the flatterer from the outside, who only comes confirming the verdict of the flatterer within.
Take care how you listen to the voice of the flatterer, who, in return for his little stock, expects to derive from you considerable advantage. If one day you do not comply with his wishes, he imputes to you two hundred defects instead of perfections.
But when I tell him he hates flatterers,
He says he does, being then most flattered.
He does me double wrong, that wounds me with the flatteries of his tongue.
Flattery is like a painted armor; only for show.
Those are generally good at flattering who are good for nothing else.
Among all the diseases of the mind, there is not one more epidemical or more pernicious than the love of flattery.
First we flatter ourselves; and then the flattery of others is sure of success. It awakens our self-love within--a party who is ever ready to revolt from our better judgment, and join the enemy without.
Flattery is the worst and falsest way of showing our esteem.
Nothing is so great an instance of ill-manners as flattery.
The love of flattery in most men proceeds from the mean opinion they have of themselves; in women, from the contrary.
'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.
(l. 769)
Where Young must torture his invention
This barren verbiage current among men,
Light coin, the tinsel clink of compliment.
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.
Flattery is like base coin; it impoverishes him who receives it.
Sirs, adulation, is a fatal thing--
Rank poison for a subject, or a king.
With you own heart confer;
And dread even there to find 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.
Men find it more easy to flatter than to praise.
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