Top 53 Flatterer Quotes
#2. Of all wild beasts preserve me from a tyrant; and of all tame a flatterer.
Ben Jonson
#3. 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
#4. 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.
Saadi
#6. 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
#8. The flatterer easily insinuates himself into the closet, while honest merit stands shivering in the hall or antechamber.
Jane Porter
#9. 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
#10. I'd developed a style in dealing with foreigners that won their trust quickly. That style was two parts showman, two parts flatterer, and one part philanderer, combined with a hint of mischief, a sniff of condescension, and a pinch of contempt.
Gregory David Roberts
#11. 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
#13. They say Princes learn no art truly, but the art of horsemanship. The reason is, the brave beast is no flatterer. He will throw a prince as soon as his groom.
Ben Jonson
#15. General good is the plea of the scoundrel, hypocite, flatterer.
William Blake
#17. 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
#18. A flatterer is a friend who is your inferior, or pretends to be so.
Aristotle.
#19. It has well been said that the arch-flatterer, with whom all petty flatterers have intelligence, is a man's self.
Francis Bacon
#20. Persons who discover a flatterer, do not always disapprove him, because he imagines them considerable enough to deserve his applications.
William Shenstone
#21. I generally only paint people I know, I'm not a flatterer really.
David Hockney
#22. It is hard to resist a flatterer who gets it right.
Robert Breault
#23. Sit down: thou art no flatterer:
I thank thee for it; and heaven forbid
That kings should let their ears hear their
faults hid!
William Shakespeare
#25. A flatterer never seems absurd: The flatter'd always takes his word.
Benjamin Franklin
#26. 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
#27. 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.
Francis Quarles
#28. The flatterer does not think highly enough of himself or of others.
Jean De La Bruyere
#29. 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
#30. I'd rather get bad news from an honest man than lies from a flatterer,
Ursula K. Le Guin
#31. I cannot think of any character below the flatterer, except he who envies him.
Richard Steele
#32. One may define flattery as a base companionship which is most advantageous to the flatterer.
Theophrastus
#34. But, perhaps, the flatterer is not often detected; for an honest mind is not apt to suspect, and no one exerts the power of discernment with much vigour when selflove favors the deceit.
Samuel Johnson
#35. 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.
Plutarch
#36. an enemy is not more baneful than a flatterer.
Martin Luther
#37. 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
#38. There is no such flatterer as is a man's self.
Francis Bacon
#39. O Hope, sweet flatterer! thy, delusive touch
Sheds on afflicted minds the balm of comfort,
Relieves the load of poverty, sustains
The captive, bending with the weight of bonds,
And smooths the pillow of disease and pain.
Richard Glover
#40. 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
#41. There is scarce any man, how much soever he may despise the character of a flatterer, but will condescend in the meanest manner to flatter himself
Henry Fielding
#42. If a moneyed man had a "corny mind", a flatterer would immediately start chasing him like a hungry hen!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#43. If we from wealth to poverty descend,
Want gives to know the flatterer from the friend.
John Dryden
#44. 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.
Plutarch
#45. Hope is nothing but a deceitful flatterer accepted by reason only because it is often in need of palliatives.
Giacomo Casanova
#46. Flattery, if judiciously administered, is always acceptable, however much we may despise the flatterer.
Bill Vaughan
#47. 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
#48. Patience is a flatterer, sir, and an ass, sir.
Aphra Behn
#50. In the name of respecting the reality, keep the flatterers out of your life!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#51. The most detestable race of enemies are flatterers.
Tacitus
#52. By flatterers besieged And so obliging that he ne'er obliged.
Alexander Pope
