People must flatter their own eyes with their pathetic lives. The things I was saying followed logically the things that I had said before, yet bore no relation to what I was thinking and feeling.
He who knows how to flatter also knows how to slander.
It is simpler and easier to flatter people than to praise them.
When people flatter you constantly it is very tempting to think you deserve it.
men are undoubtedly more in danger from prosperity than from adversity. for when matters go smoothly, they flatter themselves, and are intoxicated by their success
He that is much flattered soon learns to flatter himself.
God affords no man the comfort, the false comfort of Atheism: He will not allow a pretending Atheist the power to flatter himself, so far, as to seriously think there is no God.
The more we love our friends, the less we flatter them; it is by excusing nothing that pure love shows itself.
If you flatter me, or if you look at me the right way, I will kill myself to please you. It's very painful to be an overachiever.
Thus when we fondly flatter our desires, Our best conceits do prove the greatest liars.
No man of high and generous spirit is ever willing to indulge in flattery; the good may feel affection for others, but will not flatter them.
The language of judicial decision is mainly the language of logic. And the logical method and form flatter that longing for certainty and for repose which is in every human mind. But certainty generally is illusion, and repose is not the destiny of man.
Flatter me, but delicately, please, for I am fastidious.
Not all who discharge their debts of gratitude should flatter themselves that they are grateful.
Evil men of every degree will use you, flatter you, lead you on until you are useless; then, if the virtuous do not pity you, or God compassionate, you are without a friend in the universe.
Don't flatter the rich, or appear to willing before the great.
For friends. . . do but look upon good Books: they are true friends, that will neither flatter nor dissemble.
A traveller must have the back of an ass to bear all, a tongue like the tail of a dog to flatter all, the mouth of a hog to eat what is set before him, the ear of a merchant to hear all and say nothing.
If you flatter yourself properly you will be better able to enjoy yourself. Stretch your joy so that others enjoy you too.
When our vices desert us, we flatter ourselves that we are deserting our vices.