Walter Raleigh Quotes About Flattery

Quotes about: Flattery

• But it is hard to know them from friends, they are so obsequious and full of protestations; for a wolf resembles a dog, so doth a flatterer a friend.

  Walter Raleigh

  Dog, Flattery, Knows

  Walter Raleigh (1829). “The Works of Sir Walter Ralegh”, p.562

• Flatterers are the worst kind of traitors, for they will strengthen thy imperfections, encourage thee in all evils, correct thee in nothing, but so shadow and paint thy follies and vices as thou shalt never, by their will, discover good from evil, or vice from virtue.

  Walter Raleigh

  Evil, Imperfection, Shadow

• Because all men are apt to flatter themselves, to entertain the addition of other men's praises is most perilous.

  Walter Raleigh

  Men, Flattery, Praise

  Sir Walter Raleigh (1829). “The Works of Sir Walter Ralegh, Kt., Now First Collected: Miscellaneous works”

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