Flatterer Quotes

When the strong box contains no more both friends and flatterers shun the door. - Plutarch

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

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

'Tis hard to find a man of great estate, that can distinguish flatterers from friends. - Homer

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

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 Sr.

The same man cannot be both Friend and Flatterer. - Benjamin Franklin

The arch-flatterer, with whom all the petty flatterers have intelligence, is a man's self. - Francis Bacon Sr.

One may define flattery as a base companionship which is most advantageous to the flatterer. - Theophrastus