“How flattering,” I grumbled. “My soul glows.”
“Lay not that flattering unction to your soul, That not your trespass but my madness speaks.”
“Beware the flatterers of the world...for what is music to the ears may be poison to the soul.”
“He flatters me because he knows I am flattered by him flattering me. And that flatters him. So when he flatters me, he is really flattering himself.”
“Coach Hedge grumbled as he tended their wounds. “How come I never get invited on these violent trips?”
“there is scarce any man, how much soever he may despise the character of a flatterer, but will condescend in the meanest manner to flatter himself”