Top 49 Quotes About Flatterers
#1. Avoid flatterers, for they are thieves in disguise.
William Penn
#2. There is not one of us that would not be worse than kings, if so continually corrupted as they are with a sort of vermin called flatterers.
Michel De Montaigne
#3. Crows pick out the eyes of the dead, when the dead have no longer need of them; but flatterers mar the soul of the living, and her eyes they blind.
Epictetus
#4. People who plead with you for favours
May eventually prove to be great flatterers.
Your friends are only those
Who all the time cheerfully support
Your heart's aspiration-flames.
Sri Chinmoy
#5. We are a nation of fence-sitters, face-flatterers and back-biters.
Khushwant Singh
#7. In the name of respecting the reality, keep the flatterers out of your life!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#8. It is for the wise people who delight in humanity, praise justice, despise their flatterers, and respect the truth.
Madame Roland
#9. The most detestable race of enemies are flatterers.
Tacitus
#10. Flatterers are always to blame for the vices which prevail among mankind
Moliere
#11. He realized ... that the loudest are the least sincere, that arrogance is a quality of the ignorant, and that flatterers tend to be vicious.
Isabel Allende
#12. By flatterers besieged And so obliging that he ne'er obliged.
Alexander Pope
#13. 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
#14. Flatterers should be mistrusted, especially when they praise the dead. To seek a place in society is self-serving, but to seek one in history affects everyone.
Bauvard
#15. It has well been said that the arch-flatterer, with whom all petty flatterers have intelligence, is a man's self.
Francis Bacon
#16. 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
#18. 'Tis solitude should teach us how to die; It hath no flatterers; vanity can give, No hollow aid; alone - man with God must strive.
Lord Byron
#19. Wounded pride can take a rich young man far who is surrounded by flatterers since birth.
Stendhal
#20. 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
#21. When the strong box contains no more both friends and flatterers shun the door.
Plutarch
#22. great men are urged on to the abuse of power (when they need urging, which is not often), by their flatterers and dependents,
Charles Dickens
#23. Flatterers are the worst kind of enemies.
[Lat., Pessimum genus inimicorum laudantes.]
Tacitus
#24. If the president alone was vested with the power of appointing all officers, and was left to select a council for himself, he would be liable to be deceived by flatterers and pretenders to patriotism.
Roger Sherman
#25. The art of flatterers is to take advantage of the foibles of the great, to foster their errors, and never to give advice which may annoy.
Moliere
#27. The megalopsychos cannot let anyone else, except a friend, determine his life. For that would be slavish; and this is why all flatterers are servile and inferior people are flatterers.
Aristotle.
#28. Thus I come, most blessed Father, and in all abasement beseech you to put to your hand, if it is possible, and impose a curb to those flatterers who are enemies of peace, while they pretend peace.
Martin Luther
#29. The skilful class of flatterers praise the discourse of an ignorant friend and the face of a deformed one.
Juvenal
#30. Mediocrities can tolerate being surrounded only by flatterers who conceal their mediocrity.
Maurice Druon
#31. To be seduced by Orators, as a Monarch by Flatterers.
Thomas Hobbes
#32. Yet in the midst of all their prosperity, princes in this respect seem to me most unfortunate, because, having no one to tell them truth, they are forced to receive flatterers for friends.
Erasmus
#33. Flatterers and men of learning do not accord well with each other.
Napoleon Bonaparte
#35. Flatterers look like friends, as wolves like dogs.
George Chapman
#36. It is better to fall in with crows than with flatterers; for in the one case you are devoured when dead , in the other case while alive .
Antisthenes
#37. All flatterers are mercenary, and all low-minded men are flatterers.
Aristotle.
#38. Be advised that all flatterers live at the expense of those who listen to them.
Jean De La Fontaine
#40. 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
#41. 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
#42. It is better to fall among crows than flatterers; for those devour only the dead - these the living.
Antisthenes
#43. 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
#45. Beware of flatterers, especially when they come preaching hatred.
Albert Einstein
#46. 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
#47. Go your way, seducers, flatterers, idlers, those glib of tongue and charlatans; I am not a seed that you can force to grow; my goal differs so from yours that I would be wasting my time in trying to explain where my inclination drives me.
Dominique Fernandez
#48. 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
#49. We seek our happiness outside ourselves, and in the opinion of men we know to be flatterers, insincere, unjust, full of envy, caprice and prejudice.
Jean De La Bruyere
