I'd rather get bad news from an honest man than lies from a flatterer. — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
In the name of respecting the reality, keep the flatterers out of your life! — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
The flatterer does not think highly enough of himself or of others. — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
It is better to fall among crows than flatterers; for those devour only the dead - these the living. — Antisthenes Copy Share Image
One may define flattery as a base companionship which is most advantageous to the flatterer. — Theophrastus Copy Share Image
Flattery, if judiciously administered, is always acceptable, however much we may despise the flatterer. — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
Although a skillful flatterer is a most delightful companion if you have him all to yourself, his taste becomes very doubtful when… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
We must be careful how we flatter fools too little, or wise men too much, for the flatterer must act the very… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
There is not one of us that would not be worse than kings, if so continually corrupted as they are with a… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
There are, while human miseries abound, A thousand ways to waste superfluous wealth, Without one fool or flatterer at your board, Without… — John Armstrong Copy Share Image
Hope is a flatterer, but the most upright of all parasites; for she frequents the poor man's hut, as well as the… — William Shenstone Copy Share Image
If the president alone was vested with the power of appointing all officers, and was left to select a council for himself,… — Roger Sherman Copy Share Image
It is better to fall in with crows than with flatterers; for in the one case you are devoured when dead, in… — Antisthenes Copy Share Image
The flatterer easily insinuates himself into the closet, while honest merit stands shivering in the hall or antechamber. — Jane Porter Copy Share Image
Excellent flatterers welcome attentive audiences; mighty potentates enjoy public praise. In the most pleasing situation, a flatterer would genuinely admire the flatteree,… — Willis Regier Copy Share Image
Abhor flatterers as you would deceivers; for both, if trusted, injure those who trust them. If you admit as friends men who… — Isocrates Copy Share Image
A hat is a shameless flatterer, calling attention to an escaping curl, a tawny braid, a sprinkling of freckles over a pert… — Jeanine Larmoth Copy Share Image
Flattery pleases very generally. In the first place, the flatterer may think what he says to be true; but, in the second… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Most of intellectuals are false prophets, flatterers of the court. The real prophets are the exception and treated badly. How badly they're… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The besetting sin of able men is impatience of contradiction and of criticism. Even those who do their best to resist the… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
The skilful class of flatterers praise the discourse of an ignorant friend and the face of a deformed one. — Juvenal Copy Share Image
Of all wild beasts preserve me from a tyrant; and of all tame a flatterer. — Ben Jonson Copy Share Image
I cannot think of any character below the flatterer, except he who envies him. — Richard Steele Copy Share Image
Flatterers and men of learning do not accord well with each other. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
If we from wealth to poverty descend, Want gives to know the flatterer from the friend. — John Dryden Copy Share Image
“Hope is nothing but a deceitful flatterer accepted by reason only because it is often in need of palliatives.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Believe flatterers and you're lost; believe your enemies and you despair. — Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach Copy Share Image
Learn that every flatterer Lives at the flattered listeners cost. — Jean de La Fontaine Copy Share Image
