Flatterer Quotes

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)
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. View quote
William Blake
He that loves to be flattered is worthy of the flatterer. View quote
William Shakespeare
Of all wild beasts preserve me from a tyrant and of all tame, a flatterer. View quote
Ben Jonson
I'd rather get bad news from an honest man than lies from a flatterer. View quote
Ursula K. Le Guin
A flatterer can risk everything with great personages. View quote
Alain-René Lesage
Voltaire, who was both the flatterer and the satirist of despotism, took another line. His force lay in exposing and ridiculing the superstitions which priest-craft, united with state-craft, had interwoven with governments. It was not from the purity of his principles, or his love of mankind (for satire and philanthropy are not naturally concordant), but from his strong capacity of seeing folly in its true shape, and his irresistible propensity to expose it, that he made those attacks. They were, however, as formidable as if the motive had been virtuous; and he merits the thanks rather than the esteem of mankind. View quote
Thomas Paine
One may define flattery as a base companionship which is most advantageous to the flatterer. View quote
Theophrastus
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. View quote
William Shenstone
There is as much difference between the counsel that a friend giveth, and that a man giveth himself, as there is between the counsel of a friend and of a flatterer. For there is no such flatterer as is a man's self. View quote
Francis Bacon
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)
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. View quote
Francis Quarles
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. View quote
John Armstrong
Patience is a flatterer, sir, and an ass, sir. View quote
Aphra Behn
Who seeth not that he that is an evil counsellor to a prince is an evil counsellor to a realm? If it be sin to be an evil counsellor to one man, wat abomination, what devilish and horrible sin is it to be a flatterer or an evil councillor to a prince? View quote
Thomas Cromwell, 1st Earl of Essex
I cannot think of any character below the flatterer, except he who envies him. View quote
Richard Steele
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. View quote
William Congreve
A flatterer is a friend who is your inferior, or pretends to be so. View quote
Aristotle