Flatterer Quotes

“The so-called “innocents” are still wearing the skins of sheep to cover their evil intentions. Thus, we must avoid flatterers at any cost, so as not to become their victims.”
― Mwanandeke Kindembo, Treatise Upon The Misconceptions of Narcissism

“He talked about you,' Tiernan says.

I feel like an animal after all, one that's been baited in its den. I both dread and desire him to keep talking. 'What did he say?'

'That you didn't like him.' He gives me an evaluating look. 'I thought maybe you'd had a falling-out when you were younger. But I think you do like him. You just don't want him to know it.'

The truth of that hurts. I grind my sharp teeth together.

'The prince is a flatterer. And a charmer. And a wormer around things,' Tiernan informs me, entirely unnecessarily. 'That makes it harder for him to be believed when he has something sincere to say. But no one would ever accuse me of being a flatterer...”
― Holly Black, The Stolen Heir

“In the name of respecting the reality, keep the flatterers out of your life!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“Of all wild beasts preserve me from a tyrant; and of all tame, a flatterer.”
― Ben Jonson, Sejanus: His Fall

“Humans all look alike to me.'

Amarantha gave him a saccharine smile. 'And what about faeries?'

Rhysand bowed again- so smooth it looked like a dance. 'Among a sea of mundane faces, yours is a work of art.'

Had I not been straddling the line between life and death, I might have snorted.

Humans all look alike... I didn't believe him for a second. Rhysand knew exactly how I looked- he'd recognised me that day at the manor.”
― Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Thorns and Roses