The skilful class of flatterers praise the discourse of an ignorant friend and the face of a deformed one. — Juvenal Copy Share Image
I cannot think of any character below the flatterer, except he who envies him. — Richard Steele Copy Share Image
“Hope is nothing but a deceitful flatterer accepted by reason only because it is often in need of palliatives.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Learn that every flatterer Lives at the flattered listeners cost. — Jean de La Fontaine Copy Share Image
Believe flatterers and you're lost; believe your enemies and you despair. — Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach Copy Share Image
If the president alone was vested with the power of appointing all officers, and was left to select a council for himself,… — Roger Sherman 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
The flatterer easily insinuates himself into the closet, while honest merit stands shivering in the hall or antechamber. — Jane Porter 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
'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
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
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
The besetting sin of able men is impatience of contradiction and of criticism. Even those who do their best to resist the… — Thomas Huxley 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
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
“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 has well been said that the arch-flatterer, with whom all petty flatterers have intelligence, is a man's self. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
I'd rather get bad news from an honest man than lies from a flatterer. — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
The flatterer does not think highly enough of himself or of others. — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
