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Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.

Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.

Edmund Burke (1790). “Reflections on the Revolution in France: And on the Proceedings in Certain Societies in London Relative to that Event. In a Letter Intended to Have Been Sent to a Gentleman in Paris”, p.9

An image has stuck for most of my career and it isn't flattering.

Robbie Fowler (2009). “Fowler: My Autobiography”, p.106, Pan Macmillan

Of all wild beasts preserve me from a tyrant; and of all tame a flatterer.

Ben Jonson, William Gifford (1857). “The Works of Ben Jonson”, p.242

Flattery labors under the odious charge of servility.

Cornelius Tacitus (1858). “The History. Germany. Agricola. Dialogue on orators”, p.1

He does me double wrong That wounds me with the flatteries of his tongue.

William Shakespeare, Charles R. Forker (2002). “King Richard II: Third Series”, p.335, Cengage Learning EMEA

A fool can no more see his own folly than he can see his ears.

William Makepeace Thackeray (1870). “Miscellanies: Prose and Verse”, p.87

Do not offer a compliment and ask a favor at the same time. A compliment that is charged for is not valuable.

Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.63, Courier Corporation

Because nothing says flattery like a gun to the head.

Jim Butcher (2004). “Blood Rites: Book six of The Dresden Files”, p.69, Penguin

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

William Shakespeare, Andrew Gurr (2005). “King Henry V”, p.167, Cambridge University Press

O Beauty, find thyself in love, not in the flattery of thy mirror.

Rabindranath Tagore, Mohit Kumar Ray (2007). “Poems”, p.400, Atlantic Publishers & Dist