There is no such flatterer as is a man's self.

A Flatterer is a man that tells you your opinion and not his own

— Anonymous

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

— Francis Bacon

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

The arch-flatterer, with whom all the petty flatterers have intelligence, is a man's self.

— Francis Bacon

All authority must be out of a man's self, turned . . . either upon an art, or upon a man.

— Francis Bacon

I should have been, I don't know, a con-man, a robber or a prostitute. But it was vanity that made me choose painting, vanity…

— Francis Bacon

Vain-glorious men are the scorn of the wise, the admiration of fools, the idols of paradise, and the slaves of their own vaunts.

— Francis Bacon

Let not a man's self be to him all in all.

— Benjamin Whichcote

One thing that the white man can never give the black man is self respect. The black man in the ghettos, have to start…

— Malcolm X

“Just as Prometheus delivered stolen fire to man, so Eve, and the serpent, delivered man into self-consciousness, setting him up, were it not for…

— Neel Burton

Religion is only another word for the right use of a man's whole self, instead of a wrong use of himself.

— Henry Ward Beecher

Precisely this vanity of vanities which is the mans dream, the Illusion of his Life is the one that finally gives the man the…

— Sorin Cerin

“A man of self respect doesn't turn into a milch cow for anybody.”

— Ayn Rand

Two ideas are psychologically deep-rooted in man: self-protection and self-preservation. For self-protection man has created God, on whom he depends for his own protection,…

— Walpola Rahula

“... fortune is not in time or place or things; but, good or bad, in the man’s own self for him alone to find…

— Percy FitzPatrick