Do not look for approval except for the consciousness of doing your best.

Do not look for approval except for the consciousness of doing your best.

Flattery is all right so long as you don't inhale.

Flattery is all right so long as you don't inhale.

Let flattery, the handmaid of the vices, be far removed (from
friendship).
[Lat., Assentatio, vitiorum adjutrix, procul amoveatur.]

Let flattery, the handmaid of the vices, be far removed (from
friendship).
[Lat., Assentatio, vitiorum adjutrix, procul amoveatur.]

When Fortune flatters, she does it to betray.

When Fortune flatters, she does it to betray.

Nay, do not think I flatter.
For what advancement may I hope from thee,
That no revenue read more

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?
No, let the candied tongue like absurd pomp,
And crook the pregnant hinges of the knee
Where thrift may follow fawning.

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

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

Imitation is the sincerest of flattery.

Imitation is the sincerest of flattery.

Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt of, not swallowed.

Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt of, not swallowed.

Flattery is the worst and falsest way of showing our esteem

Flattery is the worst and falsest way of showing our esteem