Flattery, the dangerous nurse of vice.
Flattery is praise insincerely given for an interested purpose.
Flattery is like wine, which exhilarates a man for a moment, but usually ends by going to his head and making him act foolishly.
Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver; and adulation is not of more service to the people than to kings.
Flattery is often a traffic of mutual meanness, where although both parties intend deception, neither are deceived.
Flattery makes fools of the best of us.
Compliments are only lies in court clothes.
In the mouths of many men soft words are like roses that soldiers put into the muzzles of their muskets on holidays.
