A flatterer is the shadow of a fool. [ Sir Thomas Overbury ]

A flatterer's throat is an open sepulchre. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

There is no such flatterer as a man's self. [ Proverb ]

There are, while human miseries abound,
A thousand ways to waste superfluous wealth,
Without one fool or flatterer at your board,
Without one hour of sickness or disgust. [ Armstrong ]

I cannot be your friend and your flatterer too. [ Proverb ]

When the flatterer pipes, then the devil dances. [ Proverb ]

If we from wealth to poverty descend,
Want gives to know the flatterer from the friend. [ Dryden ]

He that loves to be flattered is worthy of the flatterer. [ William Shakespeare ]

As a wolf is like a dog, so is a flatterer like a friend. [ Proverb ]

Every flatterer lives at the expense of him who listens to him. [ La Fontaine ]

He that feasts a flatterer and a slanderer, dines with two devils. [ Proverb ]

When flattery is unsuccessful, it is but the fault of the flatterer. [ Levis ]

Of all wild beasts, preserve me from a tyrant; and of all tame, a flatterer. [ Ben Jonson ]

Great is the soul, and plain. It is no flatterer, it is no follower; it never appeals from itself. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

The flatterer easily insinuates himself into the closet, while honest merit stands shivering in the hall or antechamber. [ Jane Porter ]

There is no such flatterer as is a man's self, and there is no such remedy against flattery of a man's self as the liberty of a friend. [ Lord Bacon ]

Under the assumption of profound esteem, the flatterer wears an outward expression of fidelity, as foreign to his heart as the smile upon the face of the dead. [ E. L. Magoon ]

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. [ Plutarch ]

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 be flatters of consequence enough to be flattered. [ Johnson ]

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 a man's self, and there is no such remedy against flattery of a man's self as the liberty of a friend. [ Bacon ]