Best Flatterer Quotes

Don’t be afraid of enemies who attack you. Be afraid of the friends who flatter you.

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

Not kings alone–the people, too, have their flatterers.

The flatterer’s object is to please in everything he does; whereas the true friend always does what is right, and so often gives pleasure, often pain, not wishing the latter, but not shunning it either, if he deems it best.

When the strong box contains no more both friends and flatterers shun the door.

Blinded as they are to their true character by self-love, every man is his own first and chiefest flatterer, prepared, therefore, to welcome the flatterer from the outside, who only comes confirming the verdict of the flatterer within.

There is not one of us that would not be worse than kings, if so continually corrupted as they are with a sort of vermin called flatterers.

Believe flatterers and you’re lost; believe your enemies and you despair.

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

A flatterer is the shadow of a fool.

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 Art and Science cannot exist but in minutely organized Particulars.

Cats like men are flatterers.

If he be so resolved, I can o’ersway him; for he loves to hear That unicorns may be betrayed with trees And bears with glasses, elephants with holes, Lions with toils, and men with flatterers

The most detestable race of enemies are flatterers.

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

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 thinks so or not, he certainly thinks those whom he flatters of consequence enough to be flattered.

Take care how you listen to the voice of the flatterer, who, in return for his little stock, expects to derive from you considerable advantage. If one day you do not comply with his wishes, be imputes to you two hundred defects instead of perfections.

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 liable to be deceived by flatterers and pretenders to patriotism.

Were there no fools, there would be no flatterers.

Flattery leads to vulgarity; the flatterer is despised.

Flatterers and men of learning do not accord well with each other.

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.

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

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

Abhor flatterers as you would deceivers; for both, if trusted, injure those who trust them. If you admit as friends men who seek your favor for the lowest ends, your life will be lacking in friends who will risk your displeasure for the highest good.

The skilful class of flatterers praise the discourse of an ignorant friend and the face of a deformed one.

Learn that every flatterer Lives at the flattered listeners cost.

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.

He realized…that the loudest are the least sincere, that arrogance is a quality of the ignorant, and that flatterers tend to be vicious.

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

There would be no sunshine in society if the born flatterers, I mean the so-called amiable people, did not bring it in with them.

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 than the gloss of a sweet-lipped flatterer there is more profit in a distasteful truth than in deceitful sweetness.

Be advised that all flatterers live at the expense of those who listen to them.

A hat is a shameless flatterer, calling attention to an escaping curl, a tawny braid, a sprinkling of freckles over a pert nose, directing the eye to what is most unique about a face. Its curves emphasize a shining pair of eyes, a lofty forehead; its deep brim accentuates the pale tint of a cheek, creates an aura of prettiness, suggests a mystery that awakens curiosity in the onlooker.

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