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Tag Name "Flatterers" (27)

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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 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 are the worst kind of enemies. [Lat., Pessimum genus inimicorum laudantes.]
Tacitus
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Flatterers look like friends, as wolves like dogs.
George Chapman
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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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Believe flatterers and you're lost believe your enemies and you despair.
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
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Were there no fools, there would be no flatterers.
Norm MacDonald
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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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To be seduced by Orators, as a Monarch by Flatterers.
Thomas Hobbes
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Avoid flatterers, for they are thieves in disguise.
William Penn
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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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When the leaders choose to make themselves bidders at an auction of popularity, their talents, in the construction of the state, will be of no service. They will become flatterers instead of legislators the instruments, not the guides, of the people.
Edmund Burke
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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.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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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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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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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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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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In the name of respecting the reality, keep the flatterers out of your life!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
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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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It is the great privilege of poverty to be happy unenvied, to be healthful without physic, and secure without a guard to obtain from the bounty of nature, what the great and wealthy are compelled to procure by the help of artists and attendants, of flatterers and spies.
Samuel Johnson
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Not kings alone--the people, too, have their flatterers.
Victor de Riqueti, marquis de Mirabeau
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Cats like men are flatterers.
Walter Savage Landor
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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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By flatterers besieged And so obliging that he ne'er obliged.
Alexander Pope
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