HAMLET: Do you see yonder cloud that’s almost in shape of a camel?
POLONIUS: By th’ mass and ’tis, like a camel indeed.
HAMLET: Methinks it is like a weasel.
POLONIUS: It is back’d like a weasel.
HAMLET: Or like a whale.
POLONIUS: Very like a whale.

– William Shakespeare

Hamlet, Act 3, Scene 2. Hamlet shows that Polonius is a flatterer and sycophantic courtier who get ahead by agreeing with whoever is in power. When Hamlet compares the shape of a cloud to three very different animals, a camel, weasel and whale, Polonius quickly agrees each time.