12 Metaphors for flatteries

An injudicious Poet would have made Adam talk thro the whole Work in such Sentiments as these: But Flattery and Falshood are not the Courtship of Milton's Adam, and could not be heard by Eve in her State of Innocence, excepting only in a Dream produc'd on purpose to taint her Imagination.

Flattery is the food of vanity.

Cousin Walter, I have heard that flattery is poison.

But if Flattery be the most sordid Act that can be complied with, the Art of Praising justly is as commendable: For tis laudable to praise well; as Poets at one and the same time give Immortality, and receive it themselves for a Reward: Both are pleased, the one whilst he receives the Recompence of Merit, the other

"Why should Shere Ali have relapsed?" "Disappointment here, flattery in Englandthere are many reasons.

"Flattery of the people is the demagogue's regular means to political preferment."

Or, perhaps, he was only playing on the youth's vanity, for Pompeius, who was for his courage and good looks the darling of the soldiers and the women, was very vain, and flattery was a potion which it seems to have been one of Sulla's cynical maxims always to administer in strong doses.

Dress, Equipage, and Flattery were the Idols of my Heart.

Their rise is on their meanness built, And flattery is their smallest guilt.

The flattery was the more effectual because of its subtlety and because she knew, as he did, that in it there was no guile, no self-interest or sentimentality.

"You should tell Mr. Bragg, sir," she said, with an appealing look at the captain, "that flattery is a dangerous vice, and one altogether unsuited to a Christian.

Just praise is only a debt, but flattery is a present.

12 Metaphors for  flatteries