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Always let your flattery be seen through for what really flatters a man is that you think him worth flattering.
Always let your flattery be seen through for what really flatters a man is that you think him worth flattering.
Fools grow without watering.
Fools grow without watering.
Flattery was formerly a vice; it has now become the fashion.
[Lat., Pessimum genus inimicorum laudantes.]
Flattery was formerly a vice; it has now become the fashion.
[Lat., Pessimum genus inimicorum laudantes.]
If you can't love, learn how to flatter.
If you can't love, learn how to flatter.
What really flatters a man is that you think him worth flattering.
What really flatters a man is that you think him worth flattering.
Gallantry of mind consists in saying flattering things in an
agreeable manner.
Gallantry of mind consists in saying flattering things in an
agreeable manner.
Young men think old men are fools, but old men know young men are fools.
Young men think old men are fools, but old men know young men are fools.
When Fortune flatters, she does it to betray.
When Fortune flatters, she does it to betray.
Take no repulse, whatever she doth say;
For 'get you gone,' she doth not mean 'away.'
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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.
That man that hath a tongue, I say is no man,
If with his tongue he cannot win a woman.
