Closets Quote by Jane Porter

A flatterer never seems absurd: The flatter'd always takes his word.

— Benjamin Franklin

A Flatterer is a man that tells you your opinion and not his own

— Anonymous

A flatterer is a friend who is your inferior, or pretends to be so.

— Aristotle

A flatterer is the shadow of a fool.

— Thomas Overbury

A flatterer is a secret enemy

— Hungarian Proverb

“there is scarce any man, how much soever he may despise the character of a flatterer, but will condescend in the meanest manner to…

— Henry Fielding

He that is much flattered soon learns to flatter himself.

— Samuel Johnson

Flatterers are the worst kind of traitors, for they will strengthen thy imperfections, encourage thee in all evils, correct thee in nothing, but so…

— Walter Raleigh

He that loves to be flattered is worthy o' the flatterer.

— William Shakespeare

Flattery is a lie covered in a bed of flowery words.

— Deborah Smith

“Flatterers should be mistrusted, especially when they praise the dead. To seek a place in society is self-serving, but to seek one in history…

— Bauvard

It has well been said that the arch-flatterer, with whom all petty flatterers have intelligence, is a man's self.

— Francis Bacon