Quotes About Sycophants

#1. The king appeared ... with his dogs and sycophants behind him.

Kathleen Winsor

#2. It might seem that being a genius is a golden ticket to a life of glamorous soirees with the intellectual elite, champagne flute in hand, arm candy at your side, surrounded by a throng of smiling sycophants. But you might be confusing this scene with the lifestyle of a diplomat

Andre De Guillaume

#3. Some, I verily believe, delight to be slave-men; it is a joy to them, and they would not change their condition; not only miserable village wretches, but men in good position, well-to-do sycophants.

Richard Jefferies

#4. Yoko had 10 years and I had 10 years and I would rather have had the 10 years I had than the ones she did. I had the raw talent and the raw human being, before the sycophants arrived.

Cynthia Lennon

#5. Bullies like him were only strong while assured of victory; when faced with anyone more powerful, they turned into fawning sycophants, desperate to prove themselves.

Jordan L. Hawk

#6. Are you a politician?
I hate politicians, he said. And, in any case, there's no such thing anymore: only sycophants and dissidents.

Daniel Alarcon

#7. Almighty Father! let thy lowly child,
Strong in his love of truth, be wisely bold,
A patriot bard, by sycophants reviled.
Let him live usefully, and not die old!

Ebenezer Elliott

#8. In religion, it is not the sycophants or those who cling most faithfully to the status quo who are ultimately praised. It is the insurgents.

Rollo May

#9. It's just a party. You eat some food and drink a beer and pretend you don't want to be crawdad fishing," Angie said.
"No, it's an echo chamber of sycophants and I can't listen to some bimbo recite her newest purchases while pretending I don't want to throw myself from the roof.

Mary Jane Hathaway

#10. Everyone wanted to see [him] fall so they could devour his remains. As is usually the case, the army of sycophants had turned into a horde of hungry hyenas

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

#11. All the parties of capitalist society, all its moralists and all its sycophants will perish beneath the debris of the impending catastrophe. The only party that will survive is the party of the world socialist revolution ...

Leon Trotsky

#12. Whenever you commend, add your reasons for doing so; it is this which distinguishes the approbation of a man of sense from the flattery of sycophants and admiration of fools.

Richard Steele

#13. The journalists are so devoted to Obama. They are such sycophants that they're worried about access.

Rush Limbaugh

#14. It really isn't anybody's business how many people we have working for us. What's offensive is that I'm portrayed as this prima donna with these sycophants telling me how great I am all the time. Yes, they do work for me, but we're working together for a higher good ...

Demi Moore

#15. It is possible to be below flattery as well as above it. One who trusts nobody will not trust sycophants. One who does not value real glory will not value its counterfeit.

Thomas B. Macaulay

#16. politicians are like movie stars. They surround themselves with sycophants and yes-men and people to whisper nice shit into their ears - and a lot of them start believing it, because they want to believe it.

Anonymous

#17. Whenever you commend, add a compelling reason for doing so; it is this which distinguishes the approbation of a man of sense from the flattery of sycophants and the admiration of fools.

Richard Steele

#18. The world was full of waistrels and waifs, sycophants and spies - all of whom put words to the wrong use, who made everything that was said or written suspect

David Levithan

#19. History is replete with blunders written by sycophants.

Tomichan Matheikal

#20. The impulse to perfection cannot exist where the definition of perfection is the arbitrary decision of authority. That which is born in loneliness and from the heart cannot be defended against the judgment of a committee of sycophants.

Raymond Chandler

#21. I don't like sycophants. Unless you're a cat.

Primadonna Angela

#22. The trouble with competitors' sycophants is they don't know where to put their tongues. Here's a suggestion: Try behind your teeth. With your mouth shut.

Max Hawthorne

#23. Journalists were never intended to be the cheerleaders of a society, the conductors of applause, the sycophants. Tragically, that is their assigned role in authoritarian societies, but not here - not yet.

Chet Huntley

#24. They're like chocolate-chip cookies, though. Can't have just one.

Steve Berry

#25. Some people make a bad bed, they just have to lie in it.

Virginia Euwer Wolff

#26. Being a narcissist isn't easy when the question is not of loving your own image, but of recreating the self through deliberate acts of alienation.

Orlan

#27. Real education happens when you pick up a fact here, and another fact there, and put them together and get an insight.

Terry Pratchett

#28. It is hard to think of another composer who so perfectly marries form and passion.

Leonard Bernstein

#29. Moreover, I have heard that those who are fond of praising men to their faces are also fond of damning them behind their backs.

Zhuangzi

#30. When you favour a woman, she will want to return the favour in so many means, but its better to rupidiate such offerings.

Michael Bassey Johnson

#31. I want to make movies, TV series, wherever the career takes me.

Jodie Sweetin

#32. God knows our hearts. There is no need for an idle formula or an intermediary. No need for language either: God is beyond translation.

Hilary Mantel

#33. I knew this feeling, the 2 a.m. loneliness that I'd practically invented.

Sarah Dessen