Definition of Flatterer

Flatterer

One who flatters.

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He that loves to be flattered is worthy o' the flatterer.
William Shakespeare

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

He who would do good to another must do it in Minute Particulars: general Good is the plea of the scoundrel, hypocrite, and flatterer, for Art and Science cannot exist but in minutely organized Particulars.
William Blake

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 is a man's self.
Francis Bacon

Every flatterer lives at the expense of him who listens to him.
Jean de La Fontaine

They say Princes learn no art truly, but the art of horsemanship. The reason is, the brave beast is no flatterer. He will throw a prince as soon as his groom.
Ben Jonson

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

I cannot think of any character below the flatterer, except he who envies him.
Richard Steele

One may define flattery as a base companionship which is most advantageous to the flatterer.
Theophrastus

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Flatterer Translations

flatterer in Dutch is mooiprater
flatterer in German is Schmeichler
flatterer in Latin is assentator
flatterer in Norwegian is smigrer
flatterer in Spanish is lisonjero

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