Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources / Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them

by Rev. James Wood

Flatterers are cats that lick before, and scratch 20 behind. Ger. Pr.

Flatterers are the bosom enemies of princes. South.

Flatterers are the worst kind of traitors. Raleigh.

Flattery brings friends, but the truth begets enmity. Pr.

Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver, and adulation is not of more service to the people than to kings. Burke.

Flattery is a base coin, to which only our 25 vanity gives currency. La Roche.

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; / Whereas reproof, obedient and in order, / Fits kings, as they are men, for they may err. Pericles, i. 2.

Flattery is the destruction of all good fellowship. Disraeli.

Flattery is the food of pride, and may be well assimilated to those cordials which hurt the constitution while they exhilarate the spirits. Arliss' Lit. Col.

Flattery labours under the odious charge of servility. Tac.