How To Use flatterer In A Sentence
- Ascham, in his elegant description of those whom in modern language we term wits, says, that they are "open flatterers, and private mockers. Lives of the English Poets : Waller, Milton, Cowley
- I was standing by the paddock surveying the latest in a line of equine flatterers and good-for-nothing loafers in which I was about to invest.
- Although a skillful flatterer is a most delightful companion if you have him all to yourself, his taste becomes very doubtful when he takes to complimenting other people. Charles Dickens
- Your closest retainers and flatterers have never led you astray before and they will not fail you now.
- Men like this associate only with flatterers, and are friends to nobody.
- But so it was, as great men and princes are said to call in their flatterers when dinner has been served, so the Athenians, upon slight occasions, entertained and diverted themselves with their spruce speakers and trim orators, but when it came to action, they were sober and considerate enough to single out the austerest and wisest for public employment, however much he might be opposed to their wishes and sentiments. The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans
- Ascham, in his elegant description of those whom, in modern language, we term wits, says, that they are "open flatterers, and privy mockers. Lives of the Poets, Volume 1
- When flatterers meet, the devil goes to dinner.
- Now he that flatters another induces him to sin mortally: hence a gloss on Ps. 140: 5, "Let not the oil of the sinner fatten my head," says: "The false praise of the flatterer softens the mind by depriving it of the rigidity of truth and renders it susceptive of vice. Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province
- I cannot be your friend and your flatterer too.
