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Nobody can describe a fool to the life, without much patient self-inspection.
Nobody can describe a fool to the life, without much patient self-inspection.
Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt of, not swallowed.
Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt of, not swallowed.
When Fortune flatters, she does it to betray.
When Fortune flatters, she does it to betray.
By flatterers besieged
And so obliging that he ne'er obliged.
By flatterers besieged
And so obliging that he ne'er obliged.
Where Young must torture his invention
To flatter knaves, or lose his pension.
Where Young must torture his invention
To flatter knaves, or lose his pension.
Imitation is the sincerest of flattery.
Imitation is the sincerest of flattery.
Of praise a mere glutton, he swallow'd what came,
And the puff a dunce, he mistook it for fame;
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Of praise a mere glutton, he swallow'd what came,
And the puff a dunce, he mistook it for fame;
Till his relish grown callous, almost to displease,
Who pepper'd the highest was surest to please.
O that men's ears should be
To counsel deaf but not to flattery!
O that men's ears should be
To counsel deaf but not to flattery!
We sometimes think that we hate flattery, but we only hate the
manner in which it is done.
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We sometimes think that we hate flattery, but we only hate the
manner in which it is done.
[Fr., On croit quelquefoir hair la flatterie; maid on ne hait que
a maniere de flatter.]
