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If we from wealth to poverty descend,
Want gives to know the flatterer from the friend. — John Dryden
Want gives to know the flatterer from the friend. — John Dryden
A flatterer never seems absurd: The flatter'd always takes his word.
— Benjamin Franklin
Every flatterer lives at the expense of him who listens to him.
— Jean De La Fontaine
Patience is a flatterer, sir, and an ass, sir.
— Aphra Behn
Flattery, if judiciously administered, is always acceptable, however much we may despise the flatterer.
— Bill Vaughan
A flatterer can risk everything with great personages.
— Alain-Rene Lesage
Flattery leads to vulgarity; the flatterer is despised.
— Nachman Of Breslov
Self-love is the greatest of all flatterers.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
Learn that every flatterer Lives at the flattered listeners cost.
— Jean De La Fontaine
One may define flattery as a base companionship which is most advantageous to the flatterer.
— Theophrastus
an enemy is not more baneful than a flatterer.
— Martin Luther
The same man cannot be both Friend and Flatterer.
— Benjamin Franklin
I'd rather get bad news from an honest man than lies from a flatterer,
— Ursula K. Le Guin
Hope is a flatterer, but the most upright of all parasites; for she frequents the poor man's hut, as well as the palace of his superior.
— William Shenstone
It is hard to resist a flatterer who gets it right.
— Robert Breault
The flatterer easily insinuates himself into the closet, while honest merit stands shivering in the hall or antechamber.
— Jane Porter
In the name of respecting the reality, keep the flatterers out of your life!
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
The flatterer does not think highly enough of himself or of others.
— Jean De La Bruyere
General good is the plea of the scoundrel, hypocite, flatterer.
— William Blake
Hope is nothing but a deceitful flatterer accepted by reason only because it is often in need of palliatives.
— Giacomo Casanova
He that loves to be flattered is worthy o' the flatterer.
— William Shakespeare
Sit down: thou art no flatterer:
I thank thee for it; and heaven forbid
That kings should let their ears hear their
faults hid! — William Shakespeare
I thank thee for it; and heaven forbid
That kings should let their ears hear their
faults hid! — William Shakespeare
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
— Henry Fielding
A flatterer is the shadow of a fool.
— Thomas Overbury
By flatterers besieged And so obliging that he ne'er obliged.
— Alexander Pope
Persons who discover a flatterer, do not always disapprove him, because he imagines them considerable enough to deserve his applications.
— William Shenstone
A flatterers throat is an open Sepulcher.
— George Herbert
But it is hard to know them from friends, they are so obsequious and full of protestations; for a wolf resembles a dog, so doth a flatterer a friend.
— Walter Raleigh
If a moneyed man had a "corny mind", a flatterer would immediately start chasing him like a hungry hen!
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
Beware of the flatterer: He feeds you with an empty spoon.
— Brogan L. Fullmer
There is no such flatterer as is a man's self.
— Francis Bacon