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Tag Name "Flatterer" (62)

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I'd rather get bad news from an honest man than lies from a flatterer.
Ursula K. Le Guin
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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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There is as much difference between the counsel that a friend giveth, and that a man giveth himself, as there is between the counsel of a friend and of a flatterer. For there is no such flatterer as is a man's self.
Francis Bacon
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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.
Walter Raleigh
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Cats like men are flatterers.
Walter Savage Landor
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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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He who would do good to another must do it in minute particulars.
William Blake
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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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Avoid flatterers, for they are thieves in disguise.
William Penn
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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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Flatterers look like friends, as wolves like dogs.
George Chapman
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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.
Charles Dickens
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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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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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Every flatterer lives at the expense of him who listens to him.
Jean de La Fontaine
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By flatterers besieged And so obliging that he ne'er obliged.
Alexander Pope
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All flatterers are mercenary, and all low-minded men are flatterers.
Aristotle
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It has well been said that the arch-flatterer, with whom all petty flatterers have intelligence, is a man's self.
Francis Bacon
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To be seduced by Orators, as a Monarch by Flatterers.
Thomas Hobbes
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Don't be afraid of enemies who attack you. Be afraid of the friends who flatter you.
Dale Carnegie
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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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Wounded pride can take a rich young man far who is surrounded by flatterers since birth.
Stendhal
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Learn that every flatterer Lives at the flattered listeners cost.
Jean de La Fontaine
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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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