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
A flatterer never seems absurd: The flatter'd always takes his word. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Wounded pride can take a rich young man far who is surrounded by flatterers since birth. — Stendhal Copy Share Image
Flatterers are the worst kind of enemies. [Lat., Pessimum genus inimicorum laudantes.] — Tacitus Copy Share Image
Every flatterer lives at the expense of him who listens to him. — Jean de La Fontaine Copy Share Image
It is for the wise people who delight in humanity, praise justice, despise their flatterers, and respect the truth. — Madame Roland Copy Share Image
Believe flatterers and you're lost; believe your enemies and you despair. — Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach 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
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
If he be so resolved, I can o'ersway him; for he loves to hear That unicorns may be betrayed with trees And… — William Shakespeare 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
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
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
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
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
Flattery pleases very generally. In the first place, the flatterer may think what he says to be true; but, in the second… — Samuel Johnson 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
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
Take care how you listen to the voice of the flatterer, who, in return for his little stock, expects to derive from… — Saadi Copy Share Image
Read not books alone, but men, and amongst them chiefly thyself. If thou find anything questionable there, use the commentary of a… — Francis Quarles Copy Share Image
Excellent flatterers welcome attentive audiences; mighty potentates enjoy public praise. In the most pleasing situation, a flatterer would genuinely admire the flatteree,… — Willis Regier Copy Share Image
Learn that every flatterer Lives at the flattered listeners cost. — Jean de La Fontaine Copy Share Image
Of all wild beasts preserve me from a tyrant; and of all tame a flatterer. — Ben Jonson Copy Share Image
I cannot think of any character below the flatterer, except he who envies him. — Richard Steele Copy Share Image
The skilful class of flatterers praise the discourse of an ignorant friend and the face of a deformed one. — Juvenal 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
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