Quotes with flatterer

  • 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.
  • 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.

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  • Sir Walter Raleigh 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
    British courtier, writer (1552 - 1618)
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  • Jean de la Fontaine Every flatterer lives at the expense of him who listens to him.
    Jean de la Fontaine
    French writer (1621 - 1695)
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  • William Shakespeare He that loves to be flattered is worthy of the flatterer.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • William Blake 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
    English poet (1757 - 1827)
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  • William Shenstone 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
    English poet (1714 - 1763)
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  • Sir Richard Steele I cannot think of any character below the flatterer, except he who envies him.
    Sir Richard Steele
    British Dramatist, Essayist, Editor (1672 - 1729)
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  • Francis Bacon 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
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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  • Ben Jonson 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
    British Dramatist, Poet (1572 - 1637)
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