Top 30 Quotes About The Flatterers
#1. In the name of respecting the reality, keep the flatterers out of your life!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#2. 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
#3. 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
#4. 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
#5. Flatterers are the worst kind of enemies.
[Lat., Pessimum genus inimicorum laudantes.]
Tacitus
#6. 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
#7. When the strong box contains no more both friends and flatterers shun the door.
Plutarch
#8. 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
#10. 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
#11. It has well been said that the arch-flatterer, with whom all petty flatterers have intelligence, is a man's self.
Francis Bacon
#12. 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
#13. 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
#14. Flatterers are always to blame for the vices which prevail among mankind
Moliere
#15. The most detestable race of enemies are flatterers.
Tacitus
#16. It is for the wise people who delight in humanity, praise justice, despise their flatterers, and respect the truth.
Madame Roland
#17. 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
#18. 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
#19. 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
#20. 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
#21. 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
#22. It is better to fall among crows than flatterers; for those devour only the dead - these the living.
Antisthenes
#23. 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
#24. 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
#26. 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
#27. 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
#28. The skilful class of flatterers praise the discourse of an ignorant friend and the face of a deformed one.
Juvenal
#29. 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.
#30. Be advised that all flatterers live at the expense of those who listen to them.
Jean De La Fontaine
