2.
A flatterer is a friend who is your inferior, or pretends to be so.
Aristotle
3.
Be advised that all flatterers live at the expense of those who listen to them.
Jean de La Fontaine
5.
By flatterers besieged And so obliging that he ne'er obliged.
Alexander Pope
6.
The most detestable race of enemies are flatterers.
Tacitus
7.
Patience is a flatterer, sir, and an ass, sir.
Aphra Behn