Flatterer Quotes
53 quotes by 41 authors
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There is as much difference between the counsel that a friend giveth, and that a man giveth himself, as there is between the counsel of…
— Francis Bacon
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He who would do good to another must do it in Minute Particulars: general Good is the plea of the scoundrel, hypocrite, and flatterer, for…
— William Blake
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When the leaders choose to make themselves bidders at an auction of popularity, their talents, in the construction of the state, will be of no…
— Edmund Burke
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Avoid flatterers, for they are thieves in disguise.
— William Penn
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Cats like men are flatterers.
— Walter Savage Landor
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Of all wild beasts preserve me from a tyrant; and of all tame a flatterer.
— Ben Jonson
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Flattery pleases very generally. In the first place, the flatterer may think what he says to be true; but, in the second place, whether he…
— Samuel Johnson
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We must be careful how we flatter fools too little, or wise men too much, for the flatterer must act the very reverse of the…
— Charles Caleb Colton
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We seek our happiness outside ourselves, and in the opinion of men we know to be flatterers, insincere, unjust, full of envy, caprice and prejudice.
— Jean de la Bruyere
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It is for the wise people who delight in humanity, praise justice, despise their flatterers, and respect the truth.
— Madame Roland
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Self-love is the greatest of all flatterers.
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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If the president alone was vested with the power of appointing all officers, and was left to select a council for himself, he would be…
— Roger Sherman
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Go your way, seducers, flatterers, idlers, those glib of tongue and charlatans; I am not a seed that you can force to grow; my goal…
— Dominique Fernandez
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Heroes, notwithstanding the high ideas which, by the means of flatterers, they may entertain of themselves, or the world may conceive of them, have certainly…
— Henry Fielding
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To be seduced by Orators, as a Monarch by Flatterers.
— Thomas Hobbes
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Prophet just means intellectual. They were people giving geopolitical analysis, moral lessons, that sort of thing. We call them intellectuals today. There were the people…
— Noam Chomsky
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Crows pick out the eyes of the dead, when the dead have no longer need of them; but flatterers mar the soul of the living,…
— Epictetus
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Read not books alone, but men, and amongst them chiefly thyself. If thou find anything questionable there, use the commentary of a severe friend, rather…
— Francis Quarles
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It is better to fall among crows than flatterers; for those devour only the dead - these the living.
— Antisthenes
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But it is hard to know them from friends, they are so obsequious and full of protestations; for a wolf resembles a dog, so doth…
— Walter Raleigh
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