William Shakespeare Quotes About Flattery

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  • He does me double wrong That wounds me with the flatteries of his tongue.

    William Shakespeare, Charles R. Forker (2002). “King Richard II: Third Series”, p.335, Cengage Learning EMEA
  • I have trod a measure, I have flattered a lady, I have been politic with my friend, smooth with mine enemy.

    William Shakespeare, Alan Brissenden (1998). “As You Like it”, p.219, Oxford University Press, USA
  • Nay, do not think I flatter. For what advancement may I hope from thee, That no revenue hast but thy good spirits To feed and clothe thee? Why should the poor be flattered?

    William Shakespeare (2011). “Hamlet”, p.139, Simon and Schuster
  • Take no repulse, whatever she doth say; For 'get you gone,' she doth not mean 'away.' Flatter and praise, commend, extol their graces; Though ne'er so black, say they have angels' faces

    William Shakespeare (2007). “The Complete Works of William Shakespeare”, p.200, Wordsworth Editions
  • But here's the joy: my friend and I are one, Sweet flattery!

    William Shakespeare (1864). “The Works of William Shakespeare”, p.1036
  • No visor does become black villainy so well as soft and tender flattery.

    William Shakespeare, Isaac Reed, Samuel Johnson (1822). “Romeo and Juliet. Comedy of errors. Titus Andronicus. Pericles”, p.350
  • Oh, flatter me; for love delights in praises.

    William Shakespeare (1833). “The plays and poems of William Shakspeare”, p.25
  • O that men's ears should be To counsel deaf but not to flattery!

    Men  
    William Shakespeare (1853). “The wisdom and genius of Shakspeare: comprising moral philosophy, delineations of character [&c.] with notes and scriptural references [compiled] by T. Price”, p.132
  • What drink'st thou oft, instead of homage sweet, But poisoned flattery?

    William Shakespeare, Andrew Gurr (2005). “King Henry V”, p.167, Cambridge University Press
  • We make ourselves fools to disport ourselves And spend our flatteries to drink those men Upon whose age we void it up again With poisonous spite and envy.

    Men  
    William Shakespeare (1812). “The Works of William Shakespeare”, p.22
  • They told me I was everything. 'Tis a lie, I am not ague-proof.

    'King Lear' (1605-6) act 4, sc. 6, l. [107]
  • Should the poor be flattered? No; let the candied tongue lick absurd pomp, and crook the pregnant hinges of the knee where thrift may follow fawning.

    William Shakespeare (1833). “The plays and poems of William Shakspeare”, p.846
  • He that loves to be flattered is worthy o' the flatterer.

    Love  
    'Timon Of Athens' act 1, sc. 1, l. [233]
  • By God, I cannot flatter, I do defy The tongues of soothers! but a braver place In my heart's love hath no man than yourself. Nay, task me to my word; approve me, lord.

    Men  
    William Shakespeare, Herbert Weil, Judith Weil (2007). “The First Part of King Henry IV”, p.179, Cambridge University Press
  • If he be so resolved, I can o'ersway him; for he loves to hear That unicorns may be betrayed with trees And bears with glasses, elephants with holes, Lions with toils, and men with flatterers

    Men  
    William Shakespeare (2016). “The New Oxford Shakespeare: Modern Critical Edition: The Complete Works”, p.1631, Oxford University Press
  • What wouldst thou do, old man? Think'st thou that duty shall have dread to speak When power to flattery bows?

    Men   Thinking  
    William Shakespeare, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens (1785). “The Plays of William Shakspeare ...”, p.387
  • Mine eyes Were not in fault, for she was beautiful; Mine ears, that heard her flattery; nor my heart, That thought her like her seeming. It had been vicious To have mistrusted her.

    Cross, William Shakespeare (1989). “William Shakespeare: The Complete Works”, p.1095, Barnes & Noble Publishing
  • There is flattery in friendship.

    William Shakespeare, George Somers Bellamy (1875). “The New Shaksperian Dictionary of Quotations: (With Marginal Classification and Reference.)”, p.64
  • 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.

    Kings   Blow  
    William Shakespeare (2004). “Pericles, Prince of Tyre (Sparklesoup Classics)”, p.11, Sparklesoup LLC
  • I will praise any man that will praise me.

    Men  
    'Antony and Cleopatra' (1606-7) act 2, sc. 6, l. [88]
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