It is for the wise people who delight in humanity, praise justice, despise their flatterers, and respect the truth. — Madame Roland Copy Share Image
There is as much difference between the counsel that a friend giveth, and that a man giveth himself, as there is between… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
Persons who discover a flatterer, do not always disapprove him, because he imagines them considerable enough to deserve his applications. — William Shenstone Copy Share Image
I do I know not what, and fear to find Mine eye too great a flatterer for my mind. Fate, show thy… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Turn pimp, flatterer, quack, lawyer, parson, be chaplain to an atheist, or stallion to an old woman, anything but a poet; for… — William Congreve Copy Share Image
'Tis solitude should teach us how to die; It hath no flatterers; vanity can give, No hollow aid; alone - man with… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
Crows pick out the eyes of the dead, when the dead have no longer need of them; but flatterers mar the soul… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
The flatterer's object is to please in everything he does; whereas the true friend always does what is right, and so often… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
He realized...that the loudest are the least sincere, that arrogance is a quality of the ignorant, and that flatterers tend to be… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
A liar is a man who does now know how to deceive, a flatterer one who only deceives fools: he who knows… — Luc de Clapiers Copy Share Image
The art of flatterers is to take advantage of the foibles of the great, to foster their errors, and never to give… — Moliere Copy Share Image
O Hope, sweet flatterer! thy, delusive touch Sheds on afflicted minds the balm of comfort, Relieves the load of poverty, sustains The… — Richard Glover Copy Share Image
“there is scarce any man, how much soever he may despise the character of a flatterer, but will condescend in the meanest… — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
People who plead with you for favours May eventually prove to be great flatterers. Your friends are only those Who all the… — Sri Chinmoy Copy Share Image
We seek our happiness outside ourselves, and in the opinion of men we know to be flatterers, insincere, unjust, full of envy,… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
I am surrounded by flatterers and fools. It can drive a man to madness,.. . Half of them don’t dare tell me… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
