George R. R. Martin Quotes

A flatterer is the shadow of a fool.

Flattery is a counterfeit money which, but for vanity, would have no circulation.

I am surrounded by flatterers and fools. It can drive a man to madness,.. . Half of them don’t dare tell me the truth, and the other half can’t find it.

Flattery makes fools of the best of us.

Commend a fool for his wit, or a rogue for his honesty and he will receive you into his favor.

I hate careless flattery, the kind that exhausts you in your efforts to believe it.

Now flattery can never do good; twice cursed in the giving and the receiving, it ought to be.

Men sometimes think they hate flattery, but they hate only the manner of flattering.

A man who flatters a woman hopes either to find her a fool or to make her one.

Flattery labors under the odious charge of servility.

It is better to fall among crows than flatterers; for those devour only the dead - these the living.

Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt, not swallowed.

Flattery is a kind of bad money, to which our vanity gives us currency.

All flatterers live at the expense of those who listen to them.

What drink'st thou oft, instead of homage sweet, But poisoned flattery?

All flatterers are mercenary, and all low-minded men are flatterers.

Compliments are only lies in court clothes.

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.

Nothing in this world is harder than speaking the truth, nothing easier than flattery.

Complimenting someone in an exaggerated way is known as flattery, and flattery will generally get you anything you want.

Flattery, the dangerous nurse of vice.

Flattery is praise insincerely given for an interested purpose.

The reason that adulation is not displeasing is that, though untrue, it shows one to be of consequence enough, in one way or other, to induce people to lie.

It is undoubtedly true that some people mistake sycophancy for good nature, but it is equally true that many more mistake impertinence for sincerity.

They do not abuse the king that flatter him. For flattery is the bellows blows up sin; The thing the which is flattered, but a spark To which that blast gives heat and stronger glowing.