--DEAN STANLEY.
FLATTERY.--Those are generally good at flattering who are good for
nothing else.--SOUTH.
If any man flatters me, I'll flatter him again, though he were my best
friend.--FRANKLIN.
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.
--OTWAY.
A man who flatters a woman hopes either to find her a fool or to make
her one.--RICHARDSON.
Flatterers are the worst kind of enemies.--TACITUS.
It is better to fall among crows than flatterers; for those devour the
dead only, these the living.--ANTISTHENES.
Nothing is so great an instance of ill-manners as flattery.--SWIFT.
Men find it more easy to flatter than to praise.--JEAN PAUL.
'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.
Ah! when the means are gone, that buy this praise,
The breath is gone whereof this praise is made.
--SHAKESPEARE.
Flattery is false money, which would not be current were it not for
our vanity.--LA ROCHEFOUCAULD.
Who flatters is of all mankind the lowest,
Save he who courts the flattery.
--HANNAH MORE.
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