Of all wild beasts preserve me from a tyrant; and of all tame a flatterer. — Ben Jonson Copy Share Image
The most positive men are the most credulous, since they most believe themselves, and advise most with their falsest flatterer and worst… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Abhor flatterers as you would deceivers; for both, if trusted, injure those who trust them. If you admit as friends men who… — Isocrates Copy Share Image
As it is the nature of a kite to devour little birds, so it is the nature of some minds to insult… — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
But, perhaps, the flatterer is not often detected; for an honest mind is not apt to suspect, and no one exerts the… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Few men survey themselves with so much severity as not to admit prejudices in their own favour, which an artful flatterer may… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
I am surrounded by flatterers and fools. It can drive a man to madness,.. . Half of them don’t dare tell me… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Flatterers and men of learning do not accord well with each other. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
If we from wealth to poverty descend, Want gives to know the flatterer from the friend. — John Dryden Copy Share Image
Flattery, if judiciously administered, is always acceptable, however much we may despise the flatterer. — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
O Hope, sweet flatterer! thy, delusive touch Sheds on afflicted minds the balm of comfort, Relieves the load of poverty, sustains The… — Richard Glover Copy Share Image
The flatterer does not think highly enough of himself or of others. — Jean de la Bruyere 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
There is not one of us that would not be worse than kings, if so continually corrupted as they are with a… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
It is better to fall among crows than flatterers; for those devour only the dead - these the living. — Antisthenes Copy Share Image
There would be no sunshine in society if the born flatterers, I mean the so-called amiable people, did not bring it in… — Friedrich Nietzsche 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
