deceptive flattery Quotes

There is nothing which so poisons princes as flattery, nor anything whereby wicked men more easily obtain credit and favor with them.

There is nothing in the world more difficult than candor, and nothing easier than flattery. If there is a hundredth of a fraction of a false note to candor, it immediately produces dissonance, and as a result, exposure. But in flattery, even if everything is false down to the last note, it is still pleasant, and people will listen not without pleasure; with coarse pleasure, perhaps, but pleasure nevertheless.

We sometimes imagine we hate flattery, but we only hate the way we are flattered.

Flattery is false money, which would not be current were it not for our vanity.

Oh, there was harm indeed for a young lady flattered by the brief attentions of a handsome man.

Revile those who flatter you.

Let flattery, the handmaid of the vices, be far removed .

We have a name for those who try to praise when they have no pleasure in the object. We call them hypocrites.

Flattery is the worst and falsest way of showing our esteem.

Flattery is a juggler, and no kin unto sincerity.

Flattery is counterfeit, and like counterfeit money, it will eventually get you into trouble if you pass it to someone else.

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