Every flatterer lives at the expense of him who listens to…

Learn that every flatterer Lives at the flattered listeners cost.

— Jean de La Fontaine

Prophet just means intellectual. They were people giving geopolitical analysis, moral lessons, that sort of thing. We call them intellectuals today. There were the…

— Noam Chomsky

There is a principle of human affairs that goes back millennia, which is that you don't look in the mirror. You can trace this…

— Noam Chomsky

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

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

— Francis Bacon

Believe flatterers and you're lost; believe your enemies and you despair.

— Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

The most detestable race of enemies are flatterers.

— Tacitus

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

— William Shenstone

Read not books alone, but men, and amongst them chiefly thyself.

— Francis Quarles

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

Self-love is the greatest of all flatterers.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Crows pick out the eyes of the dead, when the dead have no longer need of them; but flatterers mar the soul of the…

— Epictetus

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

— Aristotle