Flatterer Quotes

If we from wealth to poverty descend,
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

A flatterer is a friend who is your inferior, or pretends to be so. — Aristotle.

Flattery, if judiciously administered, is always acceptable, however much we may despise the flatterer. — Bill Vaughan

Of all wild beasts preserve me from a tyrant; and of all tame a flatterer. — Ben Jonson

I cannot think of any character below the flatterer, except he who envies him. — Richard Steele

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

I generally only paint people I know, I'm not a flatterer really. — David Hockney

One may define flattery as a base companionship which is most advantageous to the flatterer. — Theophrastus

The most detestable race of enemies are flatterers. — Tacitus

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

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

It has well been said that the arch-flatterer, with whom all petty flatterers have intelligence, is a man's self. — Francis Bacon