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Courtiers: Quotations from Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations

A mere court butterfly, That flutters in the pageant of a monarch.— BYRON — Sardanapalus. Act V. Sc. 1.

To shake with laughter ere the jest they hear, To pour at will the counterfeited tear; And, as their patron hints the cold or heat, To shake in dog-days, in December sweat. S.— SAM'L JOHNSON — London. L. 140.

At the throng'd levee bends the venal tribe: With fair but faithless smiles each varnish'd o'er, Each smooth as those that mutually deceive, And for their falsehood each despising each.— THOMSON — Liberty. Pt. V. L. 190.