All flatterers are mercenary, and all low-minded men are flatterers.
SYCOPHANT- One who approaches Greatness on his belly so that he may not be commanded to turn and be kicked. He is sometimes an editor.
Well, Dr. Siegel is more of a sycophant than a doctor. And he's not President Trump's coronavirus guide.' President Trump appears to be his.
Learn that every flatterer Lives at the flattered listeners cost.
A flatterer is the shadow of a fool.
It has well been said that the arch-flatterer, with whom all petty flatterers have intelligence, is a man's self.
A flatterer is a friend who is your inferior, or pretends to be so.
A flatterer can risk everything with great personages.
A flatterer never seems absurd: The flatter'd always takes his word.
LICKSPITTLE, n. A useful functionary, not infrequently found editing a newspaper . . . the lickspittle is only the blackmailer under another aspect, although the latter is frequently found as an independent species.
I am not an easel-kisser.
