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Flattery: Quotations from Shakespearian Quotations

O, that men's ears should be— T. A. i. 2.

To counsel deaf, but not to flattery! The learned pate Ducks to the golden fool: All is oblique; There's nothing level in our cursed natures,— T.A. iv. 3

But direct villainy. Why this Is the world's soul; and just of the same piece— T. A. iii. 2.

Is every flatterer's spirit. Every one that flatters thee, Poems. Is no friend in misery. He dces me double wrong, That wounds me with the flatteries of his tongue.— R. II. iii. 2.

O villains, vipers, damn'd without redemption!— R. II. iii. 2.

Dogs, easily won to fawn on any man ! Ah! when the means are gone that buy this praise, made. T.— A. ii. 2.

The breath is gone whereof this praise is made. T. A. ii. 2. He that loves to be flatter'd is worthy the flatterer.— T. A. i. 1.

Heavens, that I were a lord! Why, what a candy deal of courtesy This fawning greyhound then did proffer me!— H. IV. PT. 1. i. 3.

But when I tell him, he hates flatterers,— J. C. ii. 1.

He says, he does; being then most flatter'd.— P. P. i. 2.

Flattery's the bellows blows up sin. Because I cannot flatter, and speak fair, Smile in men's faces, smooth, deceive, and cog, Duck with French nods and apish courtesy,— R. III. i. 3.

I must be held a rancorous enemy. Why these looks of care? Thy flatterers yet wear silk, drink wine, lie soft; Hug their diseas'd perfumes, and have forgot these That ever Timon was. Shame not these woods. woods. By putting on the cunning of a carper. Be thou a flatterer now, and seek to thrive By that which has undone thee: hinge thy knee, And let his very breath whom thou'lt observe, Blow off thy cap; praise his most vicious strain,— T. A. iv. &.

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