7 Metaphors for flatterers

A FLATTERER Is a dog that fawns when he bites.

A FLATTERER Is the shadow of a fool.

A FLATTERER Is the picture of a friend, and as pictures flatter many times, so he oft shews fairer than the true substance: his look, conversation, company, and all the outwardness of friendship more pleasing by odds, for a true friend dare take the liberty to be sometimes offensive, whereas he is a great deal more cowardly, and will not let the least hold go, for fear of losing you.

My flatterers here are all mutes: the oaks, the beeches, the chestnuts, seem to contend which best shall please the lord of the manor.

A flatterer is a dunce to him, for he can tell him nothing but what he knows before: and yet he loves him too, because he is like himself.

" "Do go on thinking aloud a little," I said; "it is most interesting!" "Ah," he said, "with the flatterers were busy mockers!

Thus you see Flatterers are the Agents in Families of Humourists, and those who govern themselves by any thing but Reason.

7 Metaphors for  flatterers