A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
奉承
Flattery
Imitation is the sincerest flattery.
模仿是最真诚的奉承。
Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.
奉承使接受者和给予者都堕落。
Flattery is sweet food for those who can swallow it.
谄媚是能吃的甘甜食物。
Flattery and insults raise the same question: What do you want?
奉承和侮辱提出了同样的问题:你想要什么?
Flattery is a kind of bad money, to which our vanity gives us currency.
奉承是一种坏钱，我们的虚荣心给了我们钱。
Few human beings are proof against the implied flattery of rapt attention.
很少有人能证明自己不会受到全神贯注的奉承。
None are more taken in by flattery than the proud, who wish to be the first and are not.
骄傲人最爱听人的谄媚。他们想要为首，却没有。
Everyone likes flattery; and when you come to Royalty you should lay it on with a trowel.
每个人都喜欢阿谀奉承;当你来到皇室，你应该用铲子把它抹上。
One may define flattery as a base companionship which is most advantageous to the flatterer.
人们可以把奉承定义为一种基本的友谊，这对拍马屁者来说是最有利的。
Baloney is flattery laid on so thick it cannot be true, and blarney is flattery so thin we love it.
花言巧语是奉承加在一起太厚而不可能是真的，而花言巧语是奉承加在一起太薄而我们喜欢它。
He who says he hates every kind of flattery, and says it in earnest, certainly does not yet know every kind of flattery.
凡说自己恨各样的谄媚，并且是诚诚实实说的，他还不知道各样的谄媚。
The aim of flattery is to soothe and encourage us by assuring us of the truth of an opinion we have already formed about ourselves.
奉承的目的是通过向我们保证我们已经形成的关于自己的观点是正确的，从而安慰和鼓励我们。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
There is no other way of guarding oneself against flattery than by letting men understand that they will not offend you by speaking the truth; but when everyone can tell you the truth, you lose their respect.
除了让男人知道他们说真话不会冒犯你，别无他法使自己免受奉承;但是当每个人都能告诉你真相时，你就失去了他们的尊重。
Flattery in courtship is the highest insolence, for whilst it pretends to bestow on you more than you deserve, it is watching an opportunity to take from you what you really have.
求爱时的奉承是最无礼的，因为它假装给你的东西比你应得的多，其实是在伺机夺走你真正拥有的东西。