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A flatterers throat is an open Sepulcher.
Sep 17, 2025
Not kings alone--the people, too, have their flatterers.
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.
A flatterer can risk everything with great personages.
Flatterers are the worst kind of enemies. [Lat., Pessimum genus inimicorum laudantes.]
The most detestable race of enemies are flatterers.
If we from wealth to poverty descend, Want gives to know the flatterer from the friend.
for 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.
Heroes, notwithstanding the high ideas which, by the means of flatterers, they may entertain of themselves, or the world may conceive of them, have certainly more of mortal than divine about them.
To be seduced by Orators, as a Monarch by Flatterers.
A flatterer is the shadow of a fool.
Flatterers are the worst kind of traitors, for they will strengthen thy imperfections, encourage thee in all evils, correct thee in nothing, but so shadow and paint thy follies and vices as thou shalt never, by their will, discover good from evil, or vice from virtue.
I am surrounded by flatterers and fools.
Believe flatterers and you're lost; believe your enemies and you despair.
The flatterer does not think highly enough of himself or of others.
The same man cannot be both Friend and Flatterer.
Were there no fools, there would be no flatterers.
In the name of respecting the reality, keep the flatterers out of your life!
Of all wild beasts preserve me from a tyrant; and of all tame a flatterer.
There is no such flatterer as is a man's self.
The flatterer's object is to please in everything he does; whereas the true friend always does what is right, and so often gives pleasure, often pain, not wishing the latter, but not shunning it either, if he deems it best.
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.
By flatterers besieged And so obliging that he ne'er obliged.
I cannot think of any character below the flatterer, except he who envies him
It is hard to resist a flatterer who gets it right.
Read not books alone, but men, and amongst them chiefly thyself.
Avoid flatterers, for they are thieves in disguise.
It is for the wise people who delight in humanity, praise justice, despise their flatterers, and respect the truth.
It is better to fall among crows than flatterers; for those devour only the dead - these the living.
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.
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.
The flatterer easily insinuates himself into the closet, while honest merit stands shivering in the hall or antechamber.
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.
Cats like men are flatterers.
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.
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.
Wounded pride can take a rich young man far who is surrounded by flatterers since birth.
O Hope, sweet flatterer! thy, delusive touch Sheds on afflicted minds the balm of comfort, Relieves the load of poverty, sustains The captive, bending with the weight of bonds, And smooths the pillow of disease and pain.
We must be careful how we flatter fools too little, or wise men too much, for the flatterer must act the very reverse of the physician, and administer the strongest dose only to the weakest patient.
Do not let a flattering woman coax and wheedle you and deceive you; she is after your barn.
I'd rather get bad news from an honest man than lies from a flatterer.
Few men survey themselves with so much severity as not to admit prejudices in their own favour, which an artful flatterer may gradually strengthen, till wishes for a particular qualification are improved to hopes of attainment, and hopes of attainment to belief of possession.
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.
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.
Persons who discover a flatterer, do not always disapprove him, because he imagines them considerable enough to deserve his applications.
The art of flatterers is to take advantage of the foibles of the great, to foster their errors, and never to give advice which may annoy.
General good is the plea of the scoundrel, hypocite, flatterer.
Prophet just means intellectual. They were people giving geopolitical analysis, moral lessons, that sort of thing. We call them intellectuals today. There were the people we honor as prophets, there were the people we condemn as false prophets. But if you look at the biblical record, at the time, it was the other way around. The flatterers of the Court of King Ahab were the ones who were honored. The ones we call prophets were driven into the desert and imprisoned.
Consider, for example, and you will find that almost all the transactions in the time of Vespasian differed little from those of the present day. You there find marrying and giving in marriage, educating children, sickness, death, war, joyous holidays, traffic, agriculture, flatterers, insolent pride, suspicions, laying of plots, longing for the death of others, newsmongers, lovers, misers, men canvassing far the consulship and for the kingdom; yet all these passed away, and are nowhere.
The most positive men are the most credulous, since they most believe themselves, and advise most with their falsest flatterer and worst enemy--their own self-love.