William Shenstone Quotes About Flattery

Quotes about: Flattery

• To thee, fair Freedom! I retire From flattery, cards, and dice, and din: Nor art thou found in mansions higher Than the low cot, or humble inn.

  William Shenstone

  Art, Humble, Cards

  William Shenstone, David Mallet (1822). “The Poems of William Shenstone ...”, p.154

• Persons who discover a flatterer, do not always disapprove him, because he imagines them considerable enough to deserve his applications.

  William Shenstone

  Flattery, Imagine, Enough

  William Shenstone (1804). “Essays on Men and Manners”, p.142

• Flattery of the verbal kind is gross. In short, applause is of too coarse a nature to be swallowed in the gross, though the extract or tincture be ever so agreeable.

  William Shenstone

  Flattery, Kind, Applause

  William Shenstone, Phillis Wheatley (1773). “The works, in verse and prose of William Shenstone, esq. ...”, p.218

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