If you want to win affection and respect in this world, you must flatter people.

Uses it to flatter people.

It is true that I cannot talk in finical phrases, flatter people with hypocritical praise, or suppress the real feelings of my mind.

Nothing flatters people more, nor makes strangers so welcome, as such an occasional conformity.

"And does the Bible teach you to flatter people with your tongue, while you are laughing at them in your sleeves?"

"I think he paints men better than women," said the stranger; "he doesn't flatter people, but of course his pictures are very clever."

"By Jove, Garrick," I exclaimed as my eye travelled over the page, "newspaper pictures don't usually flatter people, but just look at those eyes!