Flatterer Quotes
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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
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A flatterer is a friend who is your inferior, or pretends to be so.
Aristotle
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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
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Flattery, if judiciously administered, is always acceptable, however much we may despise the flatterer.
Bill Vaughan
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Avoid flatterers, for they are thieves in disguise.
William Penn
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There is no such flatterer as is a man's self.
Francis Bacon
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I do I know not what, and fear to find Mine eye too great a flatterer for my mind. Fate, show thy force. Ourselves we do not owe. What is decreed must be; and be this so.
William Shakespeare
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I cannot think of any character below the flatterer, except he who envies him.
Richard Steele