Oliver Goldsmith Quotes About Flattery

Quotes about: Flattery

• The ambitious are forever followed by adulation for they receive the most pleasure from flattery.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Ambition, Forever, Ambitious

• Of praise a mere glutton, he swallow'd what came, And the puff a dunce, he mistook it for fame; Till his relish grown callous, almost to displease, Who pepper'd the highest was surest to please.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Puff, Peppers, Flattery

  Oliver Goldsmith (1839). “Poetical Works”, p.145

• For praise too dearly lov'd, or warmly sought,
  Enfeebles all internal strength of thought;
  And the weak soul within itself unblest,
  Leans for all pleasure on another's breast.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Soul, Flattery, Praise

  Oliver Goldsmith (1824). “Essays, poems and plays”, p.141

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