No, let the monarch's bags and coffers hold
The flattering mighty, nay, all-mighty gold. [ John Wolcott ]

If I may trust the flattering truth of sleep.
My dreams presage some joyful news at hand. [ William Shakespeare ]

Lay not that flattering unction to your soul. [ William Shakespeare ]

Oh, greatness! thou art but a flattering dream,
A watery bubble, lighter than the air. [ Tracy ]

Trust not the treason of those smiling looks.
Until ye have their guileful trains well tried;
For they are like but unto golden hooks.
That from the foolish fish their baits do hide:
So she with flattering smiles weak hearts doth guide
Unto her love, and tempt to their decay;
Whom, being caught, she kills with cruel pride,
And feeds at pleasure on the wretched prey. [ Spenser ]

Those are generally good at flattering who are good for nothing else. [ South ]

Gallantry of mind consists in saying flattering things in an agreeable manner. [ La Rochefoucauld ]

Cautious age suspects the flattering form, and only credits what experience tells. [ Johnson ]

Words really flattering are not those which we prepare, but those which escape us unthinkingly. [ Ninon de Lenclos ]

To the warning word no man has respect, only to the flattering and promising is his attention directed. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

Hasty and adventurous schemes are at first view flattering, in execution difficult and in the issue disastrous. [ Livy ]

A man of sense and gravity is less apt to succeed with a fine woman than the gay, the giddy, the flattering coxcomb. [ Henry Home ]

A summer friendship, whose flattering leaves, that shadowed us in our prosperity, with the least gust drop off in the autumn of adversity. [ Massinger ]

Nothing is more unreasonable than to entangle our spirits in wildness and amazement; like a partridge flattering in a net, which she breaks not, though she breaks her wings. [ Jeremy Taylor ]