"If he writes to please, and not to serve, he is a flatterer and a hypocrite; if to serve and not to please, he turns cynic and satirist.
"Daniel Defoe"
William Minto
Chaminade's "The flatterer" followed.
"Brand Blotters"
William MacLeod Raine
The Valentine Repton of his imagination was a crafty pleader, a subtle cross-examiner, an ingenious flatterer of juries; but he was not a man whose nature was assailable by anything "not found in the books."
"The Martins Of Cro' Martin, Vol. II (of II)"
Charles James Lever