Not kings alone--the people, too, have their flatterers. — Victor de Riqueti, marquis de Mirabeau Copy Share Image
In the name of respecting the reality, keep the flatterers out of your life! — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
The flatterer does not think highly enough of himself or of others. — Jean de la Bruyere 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
One may define flattery as a base companionship which is most advantageous to the flatterer. — Theophrastus 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
Although a skillful flatterer is a most delightful companion if you have him all to yourself, his taste becomes very doubtful when… — Charles Dickens 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
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
There are, while human miseries abound, A thousand ways to waste superfluous wealth, Without one fool or flatterer at your board, Without… — John Armstrong 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
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
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
But it is hard to know them from friends, they are so obsequious and full of protestations; for a wolf resembles a… — Walter Raleigh 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
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
Go your way, seducers, flatterers, idlers, those glib of tongue and charlatans; I am not a seed that you can force to… — Dominique Fernandez Copy Share Image
Flatterers are the worst kind of traitors, for they will strengthen thy imperfections, encourage thee in all evils, correct thee in nothing,… — Walter Raleigh 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
Hope is to a man as a bladder to a learning swimmer--it keeps him from sinking in the bosom of the waves,… — Owen Feltham 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
A hat is a shameless flatterer, calling attention to an escaping curl, a tawny braid, a sprinkling of freckles over a pert… — Jeanine Larmoth Copy Share Image
There is a principle of human affairs that goes back millennia, which is that you don't look in the mirror. You can… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Prophet just means intellectual. They were people giving geopolitical analysis, moral lessons, that sort of thing. We call them intellectuals today. There… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Politics, under a democracy, reduces itself to a mere struggle for office by flatterers of the proletariat; even when a superior man… — H. L. Mencken 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
Consider, for example, and you will find that almost all the transactions in the time of Vespasian differed little from those of… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
