Every flatterer lives at the expense of his listener.
In English, these are all terms of mild opprobrium when directed at the flatterer.
He who would do good to another must do it in minute particulars; general good is the plea of the scoundrel, hypocrite and flatterer. (William Black, British poet).
Our own vanity is the worst flatterer.
"You're no friend. You're just a fawning flatterer," bayed the Wolf.
It is a lucky thing not to hear a flatterer, but it is dangerous to hear no critics.
Don't believe him, he's a real flatterer.
She is a flatterer in all her ways; and so much the worse, because undesigned.
These researchers discovered that asking for advice is in fact a form of flattery. And in general, flattery reflects positively on the flatterer, even if the fawning is insincere.
This gentleman was no flatterer, scarcely a friend.
A flatterer, a hypocrite.
They are both a flatterer and a smiling tiger. They are all birds of a feather.
"Be no flatterer, neither play with anyone that delights not to be played with. -- G. Washington"
Confucius said: "to make offerings to deceased that you do not need to is to be a debased flatterer."
A sycophant flatterer is neither a guru or a preacher.
Don't believe him — he's a real flatterer.
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