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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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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.
William Blake
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Hope is nothing but a deceitful flatterer accepted by reason only because it is often in need of palliatives.
Giacomo Casanova
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Turn pimp, flatterer, quack, lawyer, parson, be chaplain to an atheist, or stallion to an old woman, anything but a poet for a poet is worse, more servile, timorous and fawning than any I have named.
William Congreve
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for nothing can be more reasonable, than that slaves and flatterers should exact the same taxes on all below them, which they themselves pay to all above them.
Henry Fielding
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He that loves to be flattered is worthy o' the flatterer.
William Shakespeare
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The flatterer easily insinuates himself into the closet, while honest merit stands shivering in the hall or antechamber.
Jane Porter
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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
William Shakespeare
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Every flatterer lives at the expense of him who listens to him.
Jean de La Fontaine
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Persons who discover a flatterer, do not always disapprove him, because he imagines them considerable enough to deserve his applications.
William Shenstone
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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.
John Armstrong
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The skilful class of flatterers praise the discourse of an ignorant friend and the face of a deformed one.
Juvenal
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It is for the wise people who delight in humanity, praise justice, despise their flatterers, and respect the truth.
Madame Roland
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By flatterers besieged And so obliging that he ne'er obliged.
Alexander Pope
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In the name of respecting the reality, keep the flatterers out of your life!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
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It is better to fall among crows than flatterers for those devour only the dead - these the living.
Antisthenes
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All flatterers are mercenary, and all low-minded men are flatterers.
Aristotle
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Were there no fools, there would be no flatterers.
Norm MacDonald
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The same man cannot be both Friend and Flatterer.
Benjamin Franklin
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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.
Samuel Johnson
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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.
Charles Caleb Colton
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