"'Tis an old maxim in the schools, That flattery's the food of fools; Yet now and then your men of wit Will condescend…"

". 'No quality will get a man more friends than a disposition to admire the qualities of others. I do not mean flatter…"

"Men who offer laudatory speeches to the rich ... are insidious because, although mere abundance is by itself quite en…"

"She began to think too, that Sir Mulberry was not quite so agreeable a creature as she had at first supposed him; for…"

"Imitation is the sincerest of flattery."

"I would give worlds, could I believe One-half that is profess'd me; Affection! could I think it Thee, When Flattery h…"

"How was Moses able to withstand Pharaoh when he had nothing but holiness to give him courage? ... A solitary prophet …"

"Mine eyes Were not in fault, for she was beautiful; Mine ears, that heard her flattery; nor my heart, That thought he…"

"Why should the poor be flatter'd? No, let the candied tongue lick absurd pomp, And crook the pregnant hinges of the k…"

"Where Young must torture his invention To flatter knaves, or lose his pension."