Flatterer Quotes

He that loves to be flattered is worthy o' the flatterer.
William Shakespeare

Loves, Worthy, Flattered

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

Good, Art, Science

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

Yourself, Him, Takes

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

Friend, Self, Between

Every flatterer lives at the expense of him who listens to him.
Jean de La Fontaine

Him, Lives, Expense

I generally only paint people I know, I'm not a flatterer really.
David Hockney

Paint, Generally

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

Hope, Poor, She

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

Art, Brave, Reason

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

May, Define, Flattery

I cannot think of any character below the flatterer, except he who envies him.
Richard Steele

Character, Him, Cannot

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