William Shakespeare Quotes About Flattery

• There is flattery in friendship.

  William Shakespeare

  Inspirational, Real, Real Friends

  William Shakespeare, George Somers Bellamy (1875). “The New Shaksperian Dictionary of Quotations: (With Marginal Classification and Reference.)”, p.64

• He that loves to be flattered is worthy o' the flatterer.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Flattery, Worthy

  'Timon Of Athens' act 1, sc. 1, l. [233]

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

  William Shakespeare

  Sweet, Joy, Flattery

  William Shakespeare (1864). “The Works of William Shakespeare”, p.1036

• By God, I cannot flatter, I do defy The tongues of soothers! but a braver place In my heart's love hath no man than yourself. Nay, task me to my word; approve me, lord.

  William Shakespeare

  Heart, Men, Tasks

  William Shakespeare, Herbert Weil, Judith Weil (2007). “The First Part of King Henry IV”, p.179, Cambridge University Press

• Nay, do not think I flatter. For what advancement may I hope from thee, That no revenue hast but thy good spirits To feed and clothe thee? Why should the poor be flattered?

  William Shakespeare

  Thinking, Advancement, May

  William Shakespeare (2011). “Hamlet”, p.139, Simon and Schuster

• Take no repulse, whatever she doth say; For 'get you gone,' she doth not mean 'away.' Flatter and praise, commend, extol their graces; Though ne'er so black, say they have angels' faces

  William Shakespeare

  Mean, Angel, Grace

  William Shakespeare (2007). “The Complete Works of William Shakespeare”, p.200, Wordsworth Editions

• O that men's ears should be To counsel deaf but not to flattery!

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Ears, Flattery

  William Shakespeare (1853). “The wisdom and genius of Shakspeare: comprising moral philosophy, delineations of character [&c.] with notes and scriptural references [compiled] by T. Price”, p.132

• If he be so resolved, I can o'ersway him; for he loves to hear That unicorns may be betrayed with trees And bears with glasses, elephants with holes, Lions with toils, and men with flatterers

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Glasses, Elephants

  William Shakespeare (2016). “The New Oxford Shakespeare: Modern Critical Edition: The Complete Works”, p.1631, Oxford University Press

• What drink'st thou oft, instead of homage sweet, But poisoned flattery?

  William Shakespeare

  Sweet, Flattery, Drink

  William Shakespeare, Andrew Gurr (2005). “King Henry V”, p.167, Cambridge University Press

• 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

  Beautiful, Heart, Eye

  Cross, William Shakespeare (1989). “William Shakespeare: The Complete Works”, p.1095, Barnes & Noble Publishing

• 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

  Kings, Blow, Glowing

  William Shakespeare (2004). “Pericles, Prince of Tyre (Sparklesoup Classics)”, p.11, Sparklesoup LLC

• I will praise any man that will praise me.

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Flattery, Praise

  'Antony and Cleopatra' (1606-7) act 2, sc. 6, l. [88]

• Oh, flatter me; for love delights in praises.

  William Shakespeare

  Delight, Flattery, Praise

  William Shakespeare (1833). “The plays and poems of William Shakspeare”, p.25

• Should the poor be flattered? No; let the candied tongue lick absurd pomp, and crook the pregnant hinges of the knee where thrift may follow fawning.

  William Shakespeare

  Crooks, May, Knees

  William Shakespeare (1833). “The plays and poems of William Shakspeare”, p.846

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

  William Shakespeare

  Lying, Humanity, Flattery

  'King Lear' (1605-6) act 4, sc. 6, l. [107]

• I have trod a measure, I have flattered a lady, I have
  been politic with my friend, smooth with mine enemy.

  William Shakespeare

  Dancing, Dancer, Enemy

  William Shakespeare, Alan Brissenden (1998). “As You Like it”, p.219, Oxford University Press, USA

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

  William Shakespeare

  Fear, Men, Thinking

  William Shakespeare, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens (1785). “The Plays of William Shakspeare ...”, p.387

• He does me double wrong
  That wounds me with the flatteries of his tongue.

  William Shakespeare

  Doe, Tongue, Flattery

  William Shakespeare, Charles R. Forker (2002). “King Richard II: Third Series”, p.335, Cengage Learning EMEA

• We make ourselves fools to disport ourselves And spend our flatteries to drink those men Upon whose age we void it up again With poisonous spite and envy.

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Envy, Age

  William Shakespeare (1812). “The Works of William Shakespeare”, p.22

• No visor does become black villainy so well as soft and tender flattery.

  William Shakespeare

  Black, Doe, Flattery

  William Shakespeare, Isaac Reed, Samuel Johnson (1822). “Romeo and Juliet. Comedy of errors. Titus Andronicus. Pericles”, p.350

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