Ocupation: Writer
Life: 1780 - 1832
Birthday: 1780
Death: 1832
Adroit observers will find that some who affect to dislike flattery, may yet be flattered indirectly, by a well seasoned abuse and ridicule of their rivals.
source: Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.53
topic: Abuse, Rivals, May, Flattered, Observers