Flatterers and traders are related.
Adversity flatters no man.
A flatterer is a secret enemy.
The world flatters the elephant and tramples on the ant.
A flatterer must not lose his temper.
A fool flatters himself, a wise man flatters the fool.
When flatterers meet, the devil goes to dinner.
When flatters meet, the devil goes to dinner.
Flatters, like cats, lick and then scratch.
A flatterer has water in one hand and fire in the other.
If you flatter the mother, you will embrace the daughter.
He that loves to be flattered is worthy o' the flatterer.
When a father praises his son, he flatters himself.
He who flatters with laughter wants to see you cry.
To flatter and follow others, without being flattered and followed in turn, is but a state of half enjoyment.
He who flatters me is my enemy, who blames me is my teacher.
The flatterer makes you climb up a tree then takes the ladder away.
The fact that anyone would find me sexy is very, very flattering, but ridiculous. I so don't believe it. But I'm flattered. Truth is, I don't lift a finger to look sexy. Ever.
Nothing is so great an example of bad manners as flattery. If you flatter all the company, you please none; If you flatter only one or two, you offend the rest.
I love men that love women. Morgan Freeman, who I worked with on 'RED,' was very flattering to me. But he is flattering to all women. He is a woman-charmer.
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.