Richard Steele Quotes about Flattery

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

Mind, Disease, Flattery

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

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

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.

Believe, Flattery, Praise

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