Flatter me, but delicately, please, for I am fastidious.
The approval of a cat cannot but flatter the recipient.
God affords no man the comfort, the false comfort of Atheism: He will not allow a pretending Atheist the power to flatter himself, so far, as to seriously think there is no God.
Of those that spin out trifles and die without a memorial, many flatter themselves with high opinions of their own importance, and imagine that they are every day adding some improvement to human life.
People must flatter their own eyes with their pathetic lives. The things I was saying followed logically the things that I had said before, yet bore no relation to what I was thinking and feeling.
Oh, flatter me; for love delights in praises.
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.
It is simpler and easier to flatter people than to praise them.
When people flatter you constantly it is very tempting to think you deserve it.
For friends. . . do but look upon good Books: they are true friends, that will neither flatter nor dissemble.
And wrinkles, the damned democrats, won't flatter.
If any man flatters me, I'll flatter him again; tho' he were my best Friend.
The flesh is willing to flatter itself, and many who now give themselves every indulgence, promise to themselves an easy entrance into life. THus men practice mutual deception on each other and fall asleep in wicked indifference.
It is not for minds like ours to give or to receive flatter; yet the praises of sincerity have ever been permitted to the voice of friendship
So you shouldn't really flatter yourself that they want to be your buddy. They don't. Generally. They want you for some reason or other, and you just have to fend that off all the time.
Don't flatter yourselves that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. On the contrary, the nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become.
So willing is every man to flatter himself, that the difference between approving laws, and obeying them, is frequently forgotten; he that acknowledges the obligations of morality and pleases his vanity with enforcing them to others, concludes himself zealous in the cause of virtue.
People generally despise where they flatter.
I don't care how stylish something is if it doesn't flatter me.
No man of high and generous spirit is ever willing to indulge in flattery; the good may feel affection for others, but will not flatter them.