While they profess to abhor servility, they adulate the peerage-while they tell you they care not a rush for the minister, they move heaven and earth for an invitation from the minister's wife.
"Pelham, Complete"
Edward Bulwer-Lytton Last Updated: March 16, 2009
He actually condescended to enter into a correspondence in Holland, to obtain little scandalous anecdotes of his miserable adversary, Morus; and deigned to adulate the unworthy Christina of Sweden, because she had expressed herself favourably on his "Defence."
"Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 1 (of 3)"
Isaac D'Israeli
The king of Monomotapa is surrounded by musicians and poets, who adulate him by such refined flatteries as lord of the sun and moon; great magician; and great thief!
"Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 1 (of 3)"
Isaac D'Israeli