Flattering Quotations | Page 2

It is a profitable Wisdom to know when we have done enough: Much time and Pains are spared, in not flattering our selves against Probabilities.

Yet each man kills the thing he loves from all let this be heard some does it with a bitter look some with a flattering word the coward does it with a kiss the brave man with the sword.

Always let your flattery be seen through for what really flatters a man is that you think him worth flattering

He that is thy friend indeed,He will help thee in thy need:If thou sorrow, he will weep;If thou wake, he cannot sleep:Thus of every grief in heartHe with thee does bear a part.These are certain signs to knowFaithful friend from flattering foe.

One can also be undignified and flattering toward a virtue.

The only way to success in American public life lies in flattering and kowtowing to the mob

The encomium of one incapable of flattery is indeed flattering.