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
Heroes, notwithstanding the high ideas which, by the means of flatterers, they may entertain of themselves, or the world may conceive of… — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
“nothing can be more reasonable, than that slaves and flatterers should exact the same taxes on all below them, which they themselves… — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
We were to found a University magazine. A pair of little, active brothers-Livingstone by name, great skippers on the foot, great rubbers… — Robert Louis Stevenson 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
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
A flatterer never seems absurd: The flatter'd always takes his word. — Benjamin Franklin 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
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 cannot think of any character below the flatterer, except he who envies him. — Richard Steele 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
Not kings alone--the people, too, have their flatterers. — Victor de Riqueti, marquis de Mirabeau 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
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
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
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
In the name of respecting the reality, keep the flatterers out of your life! — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
Blinded as they are to their true character by self-love, every man is his own first and chiefest flatterer, prepared, therefore, to… — Plutarch 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
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 who would do good to another must do it in Minute Particulars: general Good is the plea of the scoundrel, hypocrite,… — William Blake Copy Share Image
Learn that every flatterer Lives at the flattered listeners cost. — Jean de La Fontaine Copy Share Image
