Flattery

• “Flattery is for fuckwits; ruthless critique is the only critique of any value.”

  Ten Things

• “Hey, it's no use telling him he's a genius: "Flattery is for fuckwits"!”

  Ten Things

• “In a seven days 'voyage to Honolulu from San Francisco we saw only one sail, and coming home to Vancouver we did not see a single craft except our own until we got within Flattery Light.”

  Pacific Problems and Canada's Part in Them

• “Flattery is the yoke that bends those ardent but frivolous heads so low.”

  Indiana

• “And, not to instance in every particular, you see, I conceive, how much satisfaction this Self-love, who has a sister also not unlike herself called Flattery, begets everywhere; for self-love is no more than the soothing of a man's self, which, done to another, is flattery.”

  The Praise of Folly

• “Flattery is a foolish suicide; she destroys herself with her own hands.] 2 Jovian restored to the church”

  The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

• “This being, called Flattery, was begat upon Poverty, by Wit; and that is the reason why poor {75} wits are always the greatest flatterers.”

  A Lecture On Heads As Delivered By Mr. Charles Lee Lewes, To Which Is Added, An Essay On Satire, With Forty-Seven Heads By Nesbit, From Designs By Thurston, 1812

• “This had been already examined and called Flattery run; it contains back water only, with very extensive low grounds, which rising into large plains reach the mountains on the east; then passed a willow island on the left within one mile and a half, and reached two miles further a cliff of rocks in a bend on the same side.”

  History of the Expedition under the Command of Captains Lewis and Clark, Vol. I. To the Sources of the Missouri, Thence Across the Rocky Mountains and Down the River Columbia to the Pacific Ocean. Performed During the Years 1804-5-6.

• “Suddenly, one morning, the dim sky line resolved into the clear-cut edges of high land, but by night such a roaring hurricane had burst on the ships as drove them {320} far out from land, too far to see the opening of Juan de Fuca, leading in from Vancouver Island, though Cook called the cape there "Flattery," because he had hoped for an opening and been deluded.”

  Canada: the Empire of the North Being the Romantic Story of the New Dominion's Growth from Colony to Kingdom

• “Flattery" is said to be "the food of fools," and if I believed with the opposition, and was disposed to flatter, why, I should have never begun such a piece, on such a subject.”

  North Carolina University Magazine, Volume 1 Number 1, February 1852

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