A Quote by Samuel Daniel

Flattery, the dangerous nurse of vice.

Samuel Daniel

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Dangerous Flattery Nurse Vice

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Samuel Daniel
English - Poet
1562 - October 14, 1619

We must define flattery and praise; they are distinct. Trajan was encouraged to virtue by the panegyric Pliny; Tiberius became obstinate in vice from the flattery of his senators.

Louis XVI of France

Flattery was formerly a vice; it has now become the fashion.

Publilius Syrus

Vice is but a nurse of agonies.

Philip Sidney

Sheer flattery got me into the theater. Flattery always works with me, particularly the flattery of women.

Carroll O'Connor

The vice of envy is not only a dangerous, but a mean vice; for it is always a confession of inferiority. It may promote conduct which will be fruitful of wrong to others, and it must cause misery to the man who feels it.

Theodore Roosevelt

The most dangerous of all flattery is the inferiority of those about us.

Sophie Swetchine

Beware of flattery! 'tis a flowery weed, Which oft offends the very idol-vice, Whose shrine it would perfume.

Elijah Fenton

Baloney is flattery laid on so thick it cannot be true, and blarney is flattery so thin we love it.

Fulton J. Sheen

flattery would be worse than vain; there is no consolation in flattery.

Charlotte Bronte

Complimenting someone in an exaggerated way is known as flattery, and flattery will generally get you anything you want.

Daniel Handler

I, too, seem to be a connoisseur of rain, but it does not fill me with joy; it allows me to steep myself in a solitude I nurse like a vice I've refused to vanquish.

Julia Glass

If solitude deprives of the benefit of advice, it also excludes from the mischief of flattery. But the absence of others' applause is generally supplied by the flattery of one's own breast.

William Benton Clulow

Don't nurse your dreams, Rosy. You can't help having them, but don't nurse them. If you nurse your dreams, they tend to come true.

Trevor Howard

Flattery is an ensnaring quality, and leaves a very dangerous impression. It swells a man's imagination, entertains his vanity, and drives him to a doting upon his own person.

Jeremy Collier

I think the vice of our housekeeping is that it does not hold man sacred. The vice of government, the vice of education, the viceof religion, is one with that of the private life.