The same man cannot be both Friend and Flatterer.

There is as much difference between the counsel that a friend giveth, and that a man giveth himself, as there is between the counsel…

— Francis Bacon

A flatterer never seems absurd: The flatter'd always takes his word.

— Benjamin Franklin

Blame-all and Praise-all are two blockheads.

— Benjamin Franklin

It is hard to resist a flatterer who gets it right.

— Robert Breault

The skilful class of flatterers praise the discourse of an ignorant friend and the face of a deformed one.

— Juvenal

Flattery leads to vulgarity; the flatterer is despised.

— Nachman of Breslov

Take care how you listen to the voice of the flatterer, who, in return for his little stock, expects to derive from you considerable…

— Saadi

The flatterer easily insinuates himself into the closet, while honest merit stands shivering in the hall or antechamber.

— Jane Porter

Were there no fools, there would be no flatterers.

— Norm MacDonald

Flatterers are the worst kind of enemies. [Lat., Pessimum genus inimicorum laudantes.]

— Tacitus

The art of flatterers is to take advantage of the foibles of the great, to foster their errors, and never to give advice which…

— Moliere

Persons who discover a flatterer, do not always disapprove him, because he imagines them considerable enough to deserve his applications.

— William Shenstone

He that loves to be flattered is worthy o' the flatterer.

— William Shakespeare

Flatterers are the worst kind of traitors, for they will strengthen thy imperfections, encourage thee in all evils, correct thee in nothing, but so…

— Walter Raleigh

But it is hard to know them from friends, they are so obsequious and full of protestations; for a wolf resembles a dog, so…

— Walter Raleigh