It's absurd to warme one in his armour.
He who cannot love must learn to flatter.
Learn that every flatterer Lives at the flattered listeners cost.
A flatterer is the shadow of a fool.
There is scarcely any man, how much soever he may despise the character of a flatterer, but will condescend in the meanest manner to flatter himself.
The flatterer does not think highly enough of himself or of others.
One may define flattery as a base companionship which is most advantageous to the flatterer.
A flatterer is a friend who is your inferior, or pretends to be so.
But, perhaps, the flatterer is not often detected; for an honest mind is not apt to suspect, and no one exerts the power of discernment with much vigour when selflove favors the deceit.
Blinded as they are to their true character by self-love, every man is his own first and chiefest flatterer, prepared, therefore, to welcome the flatterer from the outside, who only comes confirming the verdict of the flatterer within.
A flatterers throat is an open Sepulcher.
He that loves to be flattered is worthy o' the flatterer.
Flattery pleases very generally. In the first place, the flatterer may think what he says to be true; but, in the second place, whether he thinks so or not, he certainly thinks those whom he flatters of consequence enough to be flattered.
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.
Never permit yourself to indulge in cheap flattery, which often times means to merely satisfy the individuals vanity and sometimes to ingratiate the flatter into the good graces of the flattered.
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.
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.
I cannot think of any character below the flatterer, except he who envies him.
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.
Persons who discover a flatterer, do not always disapprove him, because he imagines them considerable enough to deserve his applications.
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.
He that is much flattered soon learns to flatter himself.
Of all wild beasts preserve me from a tyrant; and of all tame a flatterer.
