Quotes & Sayings About Flattery Shakespeare

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; — William Shakespeare

I'll read enough
When I do see the very book indeed
Where all my sins are writ, and that's myself.
Give me that glass and therein will I read.
No deeper wrinkles yet? Hath sorrow struck
So many blows upon this face of mine
And made no deeper wounds?
O flattering glass,
Like to my followers in prosperity
Thou dost beguile me! — William Shakespeare

I'll lock thy heaven from thee.
O, that men's ears should be
To counsel deaf, but not to flattery! — William Shakespeare

Dismiss your vows, your feigned tears, your flattery, for where a heart is hard they make no battery. — William Shakespeare

That thou hast her, it is not all my grief,
And yet it may be said I lov'd her dearly;
That she hath thee is of my wailing chief,
A loss in love that touches me more nearly.

Loving offenders, thus I will excuse ye:
Thou dost love her because thou know'st I love her, And for my sake even so doth she abuse me,
Suff'ring my friend for my sake to approve her.

If I lose thee, my loss is my love's gain,
And losing her, my friend hath found that loss;
Both find each other, and I lose both twain,
And both for my sake lay on me this cross.

But here's the joy, my friend and I are one;
Sweet flattery! then she loves but me alone. — William Shakespeare

There is flattery in friendship - William Shakespeare — William Shakespeare

Oh, flatter me; for love delights in praises. — William Shakespeare

What drink'st thou oft, instead of homage sweet, But poisoned flattery? — William Shakespeare

He does me double wrong
That wounds me with the flatteries of his tongue. — William Shakespeare

There is flattery in friendship. — William Shakespeare

They told me I was everything. 'Tis a lie, I am not ague-proof. — William Shakespeare

No visor does become black villainy so well as soft and tender flattery. — William Shakespeare

What wouldst thou do, old man?
Think'st thou that duty shall have dread to speak
When power to flattery bows? — William Shakespeare

Never fear that: if he be so resolved,
I can o'ersway him; for he loves to hear
That unicorns may be betray'd with trees,
And bears with glasses,elephants with holes,
Lions with toils and men with flatterers;
But when I tell him he hates flatterers,
He says he does, being then most flattered.
Let me work;
For I can give his humour the true bent,
And I will bring him to the Capitol. — William Shakespeare

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. — William Shakespeare

But here's the joy: my friend and I are one, Sweet flattery! — William Shakespeare