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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
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The flatterer does not think highly enough of himself or of others. ~ Jean De La Bruyere
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Every flatterer lives at the expense of him who listens to him. ~ Jean De La Fontaine
Flatterer quotes by Jean De La Fontaine
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
Flatterer quotes by William Congreve
I cannot think of any character below the flatterer, except he who envies him. ~ Richard Steele
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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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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
Flatterer quotes by Samuel Johnson
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
Flatterer quotes by William Shakespeare
A flatterer is the shadow of a fool. ~ Thomas Overbury
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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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You are evil," I tell Lila.
"Flatterer," she says, but she smiles. ~ Holly Black
Flatterer quotes by Holly Black
The besetting sin of able men is impatience of contradiction and of criticism. Even those who do their best to resist the temptation, yield to it almost unconsciously and become the tools of toadies and flatterers. "Authorities," "disciples," and "schools" are the curse of science and do more to interfere with the work of the scientific spirit than all its enemies. ~ Thomas Huxley
Flatterer quotes by Thomas Huxley
Hope is nothing but a deceitful flatterer accepted by reason only because it is often in need of palliatives. ~ Giacomo Casanova
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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
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Flattery leads to vulgarity; the flatterer is despised. ~ Nachman Of Breslov
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'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
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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
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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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Self-love is the greatest of all flatterers. ~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld
Flatterer quotes by Francois De La Rochefoucauld
This is in thee a nature but infected;
A poor unmanly melancholy sprung
From change of fortune. Why this spade? this place?
This slave-like habit? and these looks of care?
Thy flatterers yet wear silk, drink wine, lie soft;
Hug their diseased perfumes, and have forgot
That ever Timon was. Shame not these woods,
By putting on the cunning of a carper.
Be thou a flatterer now, and seek to thrive
By that which has undone thee: hinge thy knee,
And let his very breath, whom thou'lt observe,
Blow off thy cap; praise his most vicious strain,
And call it excellent: thou wast told thus;
Thou gavest thine ears like tapsters that bid welcome
To knaves and all approachers: 'tis most just
That thou turn rascal; hadst thou wealth again,
Rascals should have 't. Do not assume my likeness. ~ William Shakespeare
Flatterer quotes by William Shakespeare
Wounded pride can take a rich young man far who is surrounded by flatterers since birth. ~ Stendhal
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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
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It is hard to resist a flatterer who gets it right. ~ Robert Breault
Flatterer quotes by Robert Breault
You are 'the best of cut-throats:'--do not start;
The phrase is Shakespeare's, and not misapplied:--
War's a brain-spattering, windpipe-slitting art,
Unless her cause by Right be sanctified.
If you have acted once a generous part,
The World, not the World's masters, will decide,
And I shall be delighted to learn who,
Save you and yours, have gained by Waterloo?

I am no flatterer--you've supped full of flattery:
They say you like it too--'tis no great wonder:
He whose whole life has been assault and battery,
At last may get a little tired of thunder;
And swallowing eulogy much more than satire, he
May like being praised for every lucky blunder;
Called 'Saviour of the Nations'--not yet saved,
And Europe's Liberator--still enslaved.

I've done. Now go and dine from off the plate
Presented by the Prince of the Brazils,
And send the sentinel before your gate
A slice or two from your luxurious meals:
He fought, but has not fed so well of late... ~ Lord Byron
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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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The most detestable race of enemies are flatterers. ~ Tacitus
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The same man cannot be both Friend and Flatterer. ~ Benjamin Franklin
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By flatterers besieged And so obliging that he ne'er obliged. ~ Alexander Pope
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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
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Flatterers look like friends, as wolves like dogs. ~ George Chapman
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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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I generally only paint people I know, I'm not a flatterer really. ~ David Hockney
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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
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Avoid flatterers, for they are thieves in disguise. ~ William Penn
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General good is the plea of the scoundrel, hypocite, flatterer. ~ William Blake
Flatterer quotes by William Blake
A flatterers throat is an open Sepulcher. ~ George Herbert
Flatterer quotes by George Herbert
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
Flatterer quotes by Francis Quarles
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
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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
Flatterer quotes by William Shakespeare
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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Flatterers are the worst kind of enemies.
[Lat., Pessimum genus inimicorum laudantes.] ~ Tacitus
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If a moneyed man had a "corny mind", a flatterer would immediately start chasing him like a hungry hen! ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
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Flattery, if judiciously administered, is always acceptable, however much we may despise the flatterer. ~ Bill Vaughan
Flatterer quotes by Bill Vaughan
Ancient oak, actually, is what the boy used to call her, back when he was still a boy. Like all men, he had aged too fast. She still remembers long, summer nights back in Hafod, when she would bake bread with the windows open while he would take his crutches to read his books on the kitchen table. He used to tell her how much he loved her bread, that he thinks it is the most wonderful thing in the world. He was always a flatterer, that one. ~ K.S. Villoso
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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
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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
Flatterer quotes by Walter Raleigh
He who is the real tyrant, whatever men may think, is the real slave, and is obliged to practise the greatest adulation and servility, and to be the flatterer of the vilest of mankind. He has desires which he is utterly unable to satisfy, and has more wants than any one, and is truly poor, if you know how to inspect the whole soul of him: all his life long he is beset with fear and is full of convulsions and distractions, even as the State which he resembles: and surely the resemblance holds? Very true, he said. Moreover, as we were saying before, he grows worse from having power: he becomes and is of necessity more jealous, more faithless, more unjust, more friendless, more impious, than he was at first; he is the purveyor and cherisher of every sort of vice, and the consequence is that he is supremely miserable, and that he makes everybody else as miserable as himself. No man of any sense will dispute your words. Come ~ Plato
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A flatterer can risk everything with great personages. ~ Alain-Rene Lesage
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Flauvic was standing by the middle window, one slim hand resting on a golden latch. I realized that one window panel was, in fact, a door, and that a person could step through onto the rocks that just bordered the pool. Flauvic was looking down, the silvery light reflecting off rain clouds overhead, and water below throwing glints in his long golden hair.
He had to know I was there.
I said, "You do like being near to water, don't you?"
He looked up quickly. "Forgive me for not coming to the door," he said directly--for him. "I must reluctantly admit that I have been somewhat preoccupied with the necessity of regaining my tranquility."
I was surprised that he would admit to any such thing. "Not caused by me, I hope?" I walked across the fine tiled floor.
He lifted a hand in a gesture of airy dismissal. "Family argument," he said. Smiling a little, he added, "Forbearance is not, alas, a hallmark of the Merindar habit of mind."
Again I was surprised, for he seemed about as forbearing as anyone I'd ever met--but I was chary of appearing to be a flatterer, and so I said only, "I'm sorry for it, then. Ought I to go? If the family's peace has been cut up, I suppose a visitor won't be welcome."
Flauvic turned away from the window and crossed the rest of the floor to join me. "If you mean you'd rather not walk into my honored parent's temper--or more to the point, my sister's--fear not. They departed early this morning to our family's estates. I am q ~ Sherwood Smith
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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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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
Flatterer quotes by George R R Martin
Hope is to a man as a bladder to a learning swimmer
it keeps him from sinking in the bosom of the waves, and by that help he may attain the exercise; but yet it many times makes him venture beyond his height, and then if that breaks, or a storm rises, he drowns without recovery. How many would die, did not hope sustain them! How many have died by hoping too much! This wonder we find in Hope, that she is both a flatterer and a true friend. ~ Owen Feltham
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A flatterer never seems absurd: The flatter'd always takes his word. ~ Benjamin Franklin
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There is no such flatterer as is a man's self. ~ Francis Bacon
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To Hope

Oh, Hope! thou soother sweet of human woes!
How shall I lure thee to my haunts forlorn!
For me wilt thou renew the wither'd rose,
And clear my painful path of pointed thorn?
Ah come, sweet nymph! in smiles and softness drest,
Like the young hours that lead the tender year,
Enchantress! come, and charm my cares to rest: -
Alas! the flatterer flies, and will not hear!
A prey to fear, anxiety, and pain,
Must I a sad existence still deplore?
Lo! - the flowers fade, but all the thorns remain,
'For me the vernal garland blooms no more.'
Come then, 'pale Misery's love!' be thou my cure,
And I will bless thee, who, tho' slow, art sure. ~ Charlotte Turner Smith
Flatterer quotes by Charlotte Turner Smith
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
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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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A flatterer is a friend who is your inferior, or pretends to be so. ~ Aristotle.
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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
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