Jonathan Swift Flatter Quotations

Nothing is so great an example of bad manners as flattery. If you flatter all the company, you please none; If you flatter only one or two, you offend the rest.

Where Young must torture his invention To flatter knaves, or lose his pension.

Flattery is the worst and falsest way of showing our esteem.

Nothing is so great an instance of ill-manners as flattery.