Sycophant Quotes

#1. It's pleasant to get used to the expensive, the soft, the comfortable. Once you're addicted, it's so easy to become a sycophant, to trim the sails of your judgment in order to be kept on. The next step is to change your work to please those in power, and that is death to the sculptor.

Irving Stone

#2. I would add entertainment media cheerleader Wolf Blitzer, CNN's Pentagon sycophant in Kuwait City, a representative of the neon press, neon being that colorless, inert gas that lights up on command.

Stan Goff

#3. Sir, I am no sycophant or worshipper of power anywhere.

Benjamin F. Wade

#4. How can he [today's writer] be honored, when he does not honor himself; when he loses himself in the crowd; when he is no longer the lawgiver, but the sycophant, ducking to the giddy opinion of a reckless public.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#5. SYCOPHANT- One who approaches Greatness on his belly so that he may not be commanded to turn and be kicked. He is sometimes an editor.

Ambrose Bierce

#6. A director must be a policeman, a midwife, a psychoanalyst, a sycophant and a bastard.

Billy Wilder

#7. Sycophant learns from dogs.

Toba Beta

#8. that slimy sycophant Hux

Alan Dean Foster

#9. I would rather a thousand times be a free soul in jail than to be a sycophant and coward in the streets.

Eugene V. Debs

#10. When you begin to expect miracles, Jesus feels insulted.

Sunday Adelaja

#11. The idea is to write it so that people hear it and it slides through the brain and goes straight to the heart.

Maya Angelou

#12. 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

#13. It was clear to many American working men and women that the Homestead Steel Strike of the early 1890s, when Andrew Carnegie and Henry Clay Frick broke the backs of the steel workers, that that was a watershed.

David Levering Lewis

#14. The first place to start is on enforcement. We who got the ADA passed did the hard part, the heavy lifting.

Major Owens

#15. Thus rising wages do not produce greater satisfaction if the standard of living of the capitalist has risen even more. Yet this is exactly what happens when the growth of capital produces a rise in wages.

Anonymous

#16. Never continue in a job you don't enjoy. If you're happy in what you're doing, you'll like yourself, you'll have inner peace. And if you have that, along with physical health, you will have had more success than you could possibly have imagined.

Johnny Carson

#17. The universe uses every experience you have to help you grow and learn. No experience is wasted. Every choice you make and everything that happens to you because of other people's choices become your perfect lessons. As you learn to trust this truth, you will experience less fear and more peace.

Kimberly Giles

#18. I wrote about four novels before I wrote a word of journalism.

Francine Prose

#19. Okay, Miss Speedy Pussy, this settles the matter of whether or not I do it for you. You got your first orgasm. Tomorrow be ready to deliver my first date.

Elle Aycart

#20. The three biggest fashion mistakes are cheap suits, shoes, and shirts. Spend your money on something good.

Donatella Versace

#21. While most managers spend their time attempting to predict the future accurately - and while that's valuable - the best managers are able to generate a future which was not going to happen otherwise - that is, a future which was not predictable.

Werner Erhard

#22. In every committee of twelve, one will love you and one will betray you.

Lyle E. Schaller

#23. I don't think I was born to be in the club. Just to throw that out there.

Taylor Swift