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| A flatterer, a hypocrite. German. | 1 |
| A flatterer is a secret enemy. Hungarian. | 2 |
| A flatterer is the shadow of a fool. Giles’ Proverbs. | 3 |
| A flatterer of vice is an immoral man. Johnson. | 4 |
| A flatterer has a poisonous tongue. German. | 5 |
| A flatterer has water in one hand and fire in the other. German. | 6 |
| A flatterer’s mouth worketh ruin. Bible. | 7 |
| A flattering speech is a honeyed poison. Latin. | 8 |
| A man that flattereth his neighbor spreadeth a net for his feet. Bible. | 9 |
| As a wolf is like a dog, so is a flatterer like a friend. | 10 |
| Beware of the flatterer. | 11 |
| Dread to flatter as to die. Homer. | 12 |
| Flatterers and dogs soil their own masters. German. | 13 |
| Flatterers are always bowing and cringing. Arbuthnot. | 14 |
| Flatterers are cats that lick before and scratch behind. German. | 15 |
| Flatterers are the devil’s nurse. German. | 16 |
| Flatterers are the worst kind of enemies. Tacitus. | 17 |
| Flatterers haunt not cottages. | 18 |
| Flattery always degenerates into ingratitude. | 19 |
| Flattery brings friends but the truth begets enmity. | 20 |
| Flattery displays a braver flag than humility. | 21 |
| Flattery is like friendship in show but not in fruit. Socrates. | 22 |
| Flattery is sweet food to those who can swallow it. Danish. | 23 |
| Flattery is the bellows that blows up sin. Shakespeare. | 24 |
| Flattery is the destruction of all good fellowship. Benjamin Disraeli. | 25 |
| Flattery is the food of fools. Swift. | 26 |
| Flattery is the prolific parent of falsehood. Gibbon. | 27 |
| Flattery sits in the parlor when plain dealing is kicked out of doors. | 28 |
| Flattery the dangerous nurse of vice. Daniel. | 29 |
| Flattery was formerly a vice; it has now become the fashion. Publius Syrus. | 30 |
| He cannot have me both for a friend and flatterer. Phocion speaking of Antipater. | 31 |
| He that feasteth a flatterer and a slanderer dineth with two devils. | 32 |
| He that is open to flattery, is fenced against admonition. | 33 |
| He that rewards flattery begs it. | 34 |
| He who praises me on all occasions is a fool who despises me or a knave who wishes to cheat me. Chinese. | 35 |
| He would swallow flattery though it were laid on with a trowel. | 36 |
| If we did not flatter ourselves no body else could. | 37 |
| Just praise is only a debt, but flattery is a present. Dr. Johnson. | 38 |
| Let flattery, the handmaid of vice, be far removed from friendship. Cicero. | 39 |
| Openness to flattery is the common disgrace of declining life. Dr. Johnson. | 40 |
| Our flatterers are our most dangerous enemies, though they often lie in our bosoms. | 41 |
| Parent of wicked, bane of honest, deeds. Prior. | 42 |
| Scratch people where they itch. French. | 43 |
| Show me a poor man and I’ll show you a flatterer. Portuguese. | 44 |
| The coin most current is flattery. | 45 |
| The flatterer does the prince more harm than the enemy in the field. German. | 46 |
| The flatterer’s bite is poisonous. German. | 47 |
| The flatterer’s throat is an open sepulchre. Italian. | 48 |
| There is no such flatterer as a man’s self. | 49 |
| They who delight to be flattered pay for their folly by a late repentance. Phædrus. | 50 |
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| Trust not the flatterer: in the days of sunshine he will give three pounds of butter, and in thy need deny thee a crust of bread. Chinese. | 51 |
’Tis an old maxim in the schools
That flattery is the food of fools. Swift. | 52 |
| We seldom find out we are flattered. | 53 |
| When flatterers meet, the devil goes to dinner. Defoe. | 54 |
| When the flatterer pipes, the devil dances. | 55 |
| Who knows not how to flatter, knows not how to talk. Italian. | 56 |
| Who paints me before, blackens me behind. Italian. | 57 |
| Who trusts the flatterer sells his goods without money. German. | 58 |
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