William Shakespeare Quotes About Flattery
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He does me double wrong That wounds me with the flatteries of his tongue.
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I have trod a measure, I have flattered a lady, I have been politic with my friend, smooth with mine enemy.
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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?
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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
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But here's the joy: my friend and I are one, Sweet flattery!
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No visor does become black villainy so well as soft and tender flattery.
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Oh, flatter me; for love delights in praises.
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O that men's ears should be To counsel deaf but not to flattery!
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What drink'st thou oft, instead of homage sweet, But poisoned flattery?
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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.
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They told me I was everything. 'Tis a lie, I am not ague-proof.
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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.
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He that loves to be flattered is worthy o' the flatterer.
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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.
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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
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What wouldst thou do, old man? Think'st thou that duty shall have dread to speak When power to flattery bows?
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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.
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There is flattery in friendship.
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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.
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I will praise any man that will praise me.
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