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Tag Name "Flatterer" (58)

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Flatterers and men of learning do not accord well with each other.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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Flatterers are the worst kind of enemies. [Lat., Pessimum genus inimicorum laudantes.]
Tacitus
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Flatterers are the worst kind of traitors, for they will strengthen thy imperfections, encourage thee in all evils, correct thee in nothing, but so shadow and paint thy follies and vices as thou shalt never, by their will, discover good from evil, or vice from virtue.
Walter Raleigh
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Flatterers look like friends, as wolves like dogs.
George Chapman
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I am surrounded by flatterers and fools. It can drive a man to madness,.. . Half of them don’t dare tell me the truth, and the other half can’t find it.
George R. R. Martin
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General good is the plea of the scoundrel, hypocite, flatterer.
William Blake
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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 more of mortal than divine about them.
Henry Fielding
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Avoid flatterers, for they are thieves in disguise.
William Penn
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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.
Isocrates
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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.
William Shakespeare
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The flatterer does not think highly enough of himself or of others.
Jean de la Bruyere
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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.
William Shenstone
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Learn that every flatterer Lives at the flattered listeners cost.
Jean de La Fontaine
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If we from wealth to poverty descend, Want gives to know the flatterer from the friend.
John Dryden
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A liar is a man who does now know how to deceive, a flatterer one who only deceives fools: he who knows how to make skilful use of the truth, and understands its eloquence, can alone pride himself in cleverness.
Luc de Clapiers
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A flatterer can risk everything with great personages.
Alain-Rene Lesage
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Believe flatterers and you're lost believe your enemies and you despair.
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
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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.
Alexander Pope
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Flattery leads to vulgarity the flatterer is despised.
Nachman of Breslov
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Patience is a flatterer, sir, and an ass, sir.
Aphra Behn
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Most of intellectuals are false prophets, flatterers of the court. The real prophets are the exception and treated badly. How badly they're treated depends on the society. Like in Eastern Europe, they were treated very badly. In Latin America, they were slaughtered.
Noam Chomsky
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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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I cannot think of any character below the flatterer, except he who envies him
Richard Steele
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Flattery, if judiciously administered, is always acceptable, however much we may despise the flatterer.
Bill Vaughan
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