Flattery Quotes
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“Imitation is the sincerest of flattery.”
“Pessimum genus inimicorum laudantes.”
“Vitium fuit, nunc mos est, adsentatio.”
“Assentatio, vitiorum adjutrix, procul amoveatur.”
“By flatterers besieged
And so obliging that he ne'er obliged.”
“Their throat is an open sepulchre; they flatter with their tongue.”
“O, that men's ears should be
To counsel deaf, but not to flattery!”
“With your own heart confer;
And dread even there to find a flatterer.”
“What drink'st thou oft, instead of homage sweet,
But poison'd flattery?”
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“Gallantry of mind consists in saying flattering things in an agreeable manner.”
“Where Young must torture his invention
To flatter knaves, or lose his pension.”
“Es ist dem Menschen leichter und geläufiger, zu schmeicheln als zu loben.”
“They do abuse the king that flatter him:
For flattery is the bellows blows up sin.”
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“Qu se laudari gaudent verbis subdolis,
Sera dant pœnas turpes pœnitentia.”
“Adulandi gens prudentissima laudat
Sermonem indocti, faciem deformis amici.”
“But when I tell him he hates flatterers,
He says he does, being then most flattered.”
“On croit quelquefois haïr la flatterie; mais on ne hait que la manière de flatter.”
“It has been well said that "the arch-flatterer with whom all the petty flatterers have intelligence is a man's self."”