There is nothing which so poisons princes as flattery, nor anything whereby wicked men more easily obtain credit and favor with them.
INGRATE, n. One who receives a benefit from another, or is otherwise an object of charity.
We sometimes think that we hate flattery, but we only hate the manner in which it is done. [Fr., On croit quelquefoir hair la flatterie; maid on ne hait que a maniere de flatter.]
It is better to fall among crows than flatterers; for those devour only the dead - these the living.
Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver; and adulation is not of more service to the people than to kings.
I tend to be the type who is overly polite and sort of ingratiating to other people.
The fawning courtier and the surly squire often mean the same thing,--each his own interest.
There would be no sunshine in society if the born flatterers, I mean the so-called amiable people, did not bring it in with them.
Flatterers and men of learning do not accord well with each other.
Live loath'd and long, Most smiling, smooth, detested parasites, Courteous destroyers, affable wolves, meek bears, You fools of fortune, trencher friends, time flies Cap and knee slaves, vapors, and minute jacks.
People generally despise where they flatter, and cringe to those they would gladly overtop; so that truth and ceremony are two things.
It is undoubtedly true that some people mistake sycophancy for good nature, but it is equally true that many more mistake impertinence for sincerity.
Complimenting someone in an exaggerated way is known as flattery, and flattery will generally get you anything you want.
Never permit yourself to indulge in cheap flattery, which often times means to merely satisfy the individuals vanity and sometimes to ingratiate the flatter into the good graces of the flattered.
Let flattery, the handmaid of the vices, be far removed .
Nothing is so great an instance of ill-manners as flattery.
Flattery was formerly a vice; it has now become the fashion.
