Jonathan Swift Quotes About Flattery

Quotes about: Flattery

• 'T is an old maxim in the schools, That flattery 's the food of fools; Yet now and then your men of wit Will condescend to take a bit.

  Jonathan Swift

  School, Men, Cooking

  Jonathan Swift, Thomas Sheridan, John Nichols (1801). “The Works of the Rev. Jonathan Swift, D.D., Dean of St. Patrick's, Dublin”, p.121

• Love of flattery, in most men, proceeds from the mean opinion they have of themselves; in women, from the contrary.

  Jonathan Swift

  Mean, Men, Opinion

  Jonathan Swift (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Jonathan Swift (Illustrated)”, p.898, Delphi Classics

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

  Jonathan Swift

  Knaves, Flattery, Invention

  Jonathan Swift (1823). “The select works of Jonathan Swift ...: containing the whole of his poetical works ... embellished with engravings”, p.55

• Nothing is so great an example of bad manners as flattery. If you flatter all the company, you please none; If you flatter only one or two, you offend the rest.

  Jonathan Swift

  Two, Example, Flattery

• Flattery is the worst and falsest way of showing our esteem.

  Jonathan Swift

  Way, Flattery, Worst

  Jonathan Swift (1861). “The Works of Jonathan Swift ...: With Cop'ous Notes and Additions”, p.625

• Nothing is so great an instance of ill-manners as flattery.

  Jonathan Swift

  Flattery, Manners, Ill

  Jonathan Swift (1861). “The Works of Jonathan Swift ...: With Cop'ous Notes and Additions”, p.625

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