Richard Steele Quotes About Flattery

Quotes about: Flattery

• Among all the diseases of the mind there is not one more epidemical or more pernicious than the love of flattery.

  Richard Steele

  Mind, Disease, Flattery

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1832). “The Spectator: with notes and general index, from the London stereotype edition ...”, p.346

• Whenever you commend, add your reasons for doing so; it is this which distinguishes the approbation of a man of sense from the flattery of sycophants and admiration of fools.

  Richard Steele

  Men, Fool, Sycophants

  Richard Steele, Joseph Addison (1794). “The Guardian”, p.99

• The praise of an ignorant man is only good-will, and you should receive his kindness as he is a good neighbor in society, and not as a good judge of your actions in point of fame and reputation.

  Richard Steele

  Kindness, Men, Judging

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1860). “The Spectator: A New Edition”, p.244

• I cannot think of any character below the flatterer, except he who envies him

  Richard Steele

  Character, Thinking, Envy

• The world is grown so full of dissimulation and compliment, that men's words are hardly any signification of their thoughts.

  Richard Steele

  Men, World, Flattery

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1853). “The Spectator”, p.62

• There can hardly, I believe, be imagined a more desirable pleasure than that of praise unmixed with any possibility of flattery.

  Richard Steele

  Believe, Flattery, Praise

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1826). “The Spectator: With Notes, and a General Index”, p.310

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