A flatterer is a friend who is your inferior, or pretends to be so.
- AristotleRead not books alone, but men, and amongst them chiefly thyself. If thou find anything questionable there, use the commentary of a severe friend rather than the gloss of a sweet lipped flatterer; there is more profit in a distasteful truth than in deceitful sweetness.
- Abdoulaye SarrHope 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.
- Andrew Rudnick