Flatterer Quotes

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Although a skillful flatterer is a most delightful companion if you have him all to yourself, his taste becomes very doubtful when he takes to complimenting other people.

Every flatterer lives at the expense of him who listens to him.

The most positive men are the most credulous, since they most believe themselves, and advise most with their falsest flatterer and worst enemy--their own self-love.

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

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

General good is the plea of the scoundrel, hypocite, flatterer.

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 physician, and administer the strongest dose only to the weakest patient.

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 a flatterer a friend.

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

Hope is a flatterer, but the most upright of all parasites; for she frequents the poor man's hut, as well as the palace of his superior.

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

One may define flattery as a base companionship which is most advantageous to the flatterer.

By flatterers besieged And so obliging that he ne'er obliged.

Of all wild beasts preserve me from a tyrant; and of all tame a flatterer.

The same man cannot be both Friend and Flatterer.

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

The most detestable race of enemies are flatterers.

Learn that every flatterer Lives at the flattered listeners cost.

A flatterer is the shadow of a fool.

The flatterer easily insinuates himself into the closet, while honest merit stands shivering in the hall or antechamber.

Flattery, if judiciously administered, is always acceptable, however much we may despise the flatterer.

There is no such flatterer as is a man's self.

I'd rather get bad news from an honest man than lies from a flatterer.

I cannot think of any character below the flatterer, except he who envies him

Flattery leads to vulgarity; the flatterer is despised.

If we from wealth to poverty descend, Want gives to know the flatterer from the friend.

There are, while human miseries abound, A thousand ways to waste superfluous wealth, Without one fool or flatterer at your board, Without one hour of sickness or disgust.

There is scarcely any man, how much soever he may despise the character of a flatterer, but will condescend in the meanest manner to flatter himself.

A flatterer can risk everything with great personages.

I am surrounded by flatterers and fools.

But, perhaps, the flatterer is not often detected; for an honest mind is not apt to suspect, and no one exerts the power of discernment with much vigour when selflove favors the deceit.

A flatterers throat is an open Sepulcher.

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

I do I know not what, and fear to find Mine eye too great a flatterer for my mind. Fate, show thy force. Ourselves we do not owe. What is decreed must be; and be this so.

Persons who discover a flatterer, do not always disapprove him, because he imagines them considerable enough to deserve his applications.