Application Quote by William Shenstone

The flatterer does not think highly enough of himself or of others.

— Jean de la Bruyere

The art of flatterers is to take advantage of the foibles of the great, to foster their errors, and never to give advice which…

— Moliere

“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

Flattery pleases very generally. In the first place, the flatterer may think what he says to be true; but, in the second place, whether…

— Samuel Johnson

A flatterer can risk everything with great personages.

— Alain-Rene Lesage

But, perhaps, the flatterer is not often detected; for an honest mind is not apt to suspect, and no one exerts the power of…

— Samuel Johnson

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

— Anonymous

The mischief of flattery is, not that it persuades any man that he is what he is not, but that it suppresses the influence…

— Samuel Johnson

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

— Aristotle

It is hard to resist a flatterer who gets it right.

— Robert Breault

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

— Benjamin Franklin

Abhor flatterers as you would deceivers; for both, if trusted, injure those who trust them. If you admit as friends men who seek your…

— Isocrates