Whoever flatters betrays. [ Massillon ]

Adversity flatters no man. [ Proverb ]

Every one that flatters thee,
Is no friend in misery;
Words are easy, like the wind,
Faithful friends are hard to find. [ Shakespeare ]

He who flatters you is your enemy. [ Cardan ]

The lie that flatters I abhor the most. [ Cowper ]

No man flatters the woman he truly loves. [ Tuckermann ]

Who flatters is of all mankind the lowest.
Save he who courts the flattery. [ Hannah More ]

A fool flatters himself, a wise man flatters the fool. [ Bulwer ]

Pretty women are like sovereigns: one flatters them only through interest.

If any man flatters me, I'll flatter him again, though he were my best friend. [ Franklin ]

A man who flatters a woman hopes either to find her a fool or to make her one. [ Richardson ]

He that flatters himself in sciences, and grows worse in morals, makes no improvement. [ Proverb ]

I love a friendship that flatters itself in the sharpness and vigor of its communications. [ Montaigne ]

A man must be a fool, who does not succeed in making a woman believe that which flatters her. [ Balzac ]

Women swallow at one mouthful the lie that flatters, and drink drop by drop a truth that is bitter. [ Diderot ]

Adulation is the death of virtue. Who flatters is of all mankind the lowest, save he who courts the flattery. [ Hannah More ]

Truth contradicts our nature, error does not, and for a very simple reason: truth requires us to regard ourselves as limited, error flatters us to think of ourselves as in one or other way unlimited. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

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 ]