Flatterers haunt not cottages. [ Proverb ]

Self-love is the greatest of flatterers. [ La Rochefoucauld ]

Flatterers are the worst kind of enemies. [ Tacitus ]

Flatterers are the worst kind of traitors. [ Raleigh ]

But when I tell him he hates flatterers,
He says he does, being then most flattered. [ William Shakespeare ]

Flatterers are the bosom enemies of princes. [ South ]

When flatterers meet, the devil goes to dinner. [ Proverb ]

Gold, father of flatterers, of pain and care begot,
A fear it is to have thee, and a pain to have thee not. [ Palladas ]

Flatterers are cats that lick before, and scratch behind. [ German Proverb ]

Not kings alone - the people, too, have their flatterers. [ Mirabeau ]

The worst of enemies are flatterers, and the worst of flatterers are pleasures. [ Bossuet ]

Our flatterers are our most dangerous enemies, and yet often lie in our bosoms. [ Proverb ]

Flatterers are but the shadows of princes' bodies; the least thick cloud makes them invisible. [ John Webster ]

It is better to fall among crows than flatterers; for those devour the dead only, these the living. [ Antisthenes ]

The reason that there is such a general outcry against flatterers is, that there are so very few good ones. [ Steele ]

It hath been well said that the archflatterer, with whom all the petty flatterers have intelligence, is a man's self. [ Bacon ]

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. [ Moliere ]

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. [ Montaigne ]

Crows pick out the eyes of the dead when they are no longer of any use. But flatterers destroy the souls of the living by blinding their eyes. [ Maximus ]