“ When the strong box contains no more, both friends and flatterers shun the door. ”
- Plutarch- Copy
- 238
“ He that loves to be flattered is worthy of the flatterer. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
- 770
“ I cannot think of any character below the flatterer, except he who envies him. ”
- Sir Richard Steele- Copy
- 3.8K
“ Every flatterer lives at the expense of him who listens to him. ”
- Jean de La Fontaine- Copy
- 3.6K
“ Be advised that all flatterers live at the expense of those who listen to them. ”
- Jean de La Fontaine- Copy
- 4K
“ 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- Copy
- 3.5K
“ Journalists were never intended to be the cheerleaders of a society, the conductors of applause, the sycophants. Tragically, that is their assigned role in authoritarian societies, but not here - not yet. ”
- Chet Huntley- Copy
- 3.5K
“ 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. ”
- Francis Bacon- Copy
- 2.2K
“ From his childhood onwards this boy will be surrounded by sycophants and flatterers. In due course, following the precedent which has already been set, he will be sent on a tour of the world and probably rumors of a morganatic marriage alliance will follow, and the end of it will be the country will be called upon to pay the bill. ”
- James Keir Hardie- Copy
- 2.4K
“ It is better to fall among crows than flatterers; for those devour only the dead — these the living. ”
- Antisthenes- Copy
- 2.6K
“ Science has always been too dignified to invent a good backscratcher. ”
- Don Marquis- Copy
- 1.8K
“ One may define flattery as a base companionship which is most advantageous to the flatterer. ”
- Theophrastus- Copy
- 3.2K
“ Gentleness, which belongs to virtue, is to be carefully distinguished from the mean spirit of cowards and the fawning assent of sycophants. ”
- Hugh Blair- Copy
- 1.2K
“ By flatterers besieged And so obliging that he ne'er obliged. ”
- Alexander Pope- Copy
- 715
“ If from Society we learn to live Tis Solitude should teach us how to die; It hath no flatterers. ”
- Lord Byron- Copy
- 163
“ I always use my clients' products. This is not toady-ism, but elementary good manners. ”
- David Ogilvy- Copy
- 903
“ A director must be a policeman, a midwife, a psychoanalyst, a sycophant and a bastard. ”
- Billy Wilder- Copy
- 1.3K
“ 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- Copy
- 719
“ 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- Copy
- 1.5K
“ A flatterer is a friend who is your inferior, or pretends to be so. ”
- Aristotle- Copy
- 1.3K
“ 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. ”
- Sir Walter Raleigh- Copy
- 2.7K
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