| Wisdom is also needed in picking and satisfying his closest advisors and avoiding flatterers. |
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| Your closest retainers and flatterers have never led you astray before and they will not fail you now. |
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| 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. |
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| Artists are mainly flatterers when it comes to the portrait. |
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| What came first the money launderers or the flatterers. What came first the Catherine wheel or the icebox. |
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| She will almost never be praised in public except by oleaginous flatterers desperate for social advantage. |
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| The fall in the level of the sea was interpreted as a mark of divine favour by Alexander's flatterers, including the historian Callisthenes. |
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| Men like this associate only with flatterers, and are friends to nobody. |
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| Johnson heard it all, and mischief-makers, flatterers, and his own paranoid imagination then invented even more. |
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| Later versions of his life recorded that he was a model king who treated all his subjects with equal justice and who was unbending to flatterers. |
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| But in difficult times, Young Biebs can at least take comfort in the knowledge that if imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, his flatterers are mostly A-list celebs. |
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| They are surrounded by liars, flatterers and those who praise them. |
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| I had heard similar complaints from other members of the party: that the P. T. I. was a one-man show, with a superstar chairman self-absorbedly pied-pipering a gaggle of squabbling egos and craven flatterers. |
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