sycophantic behavior Quotes

Flattery labors under the odious charge of servility.

Flattery is useful when dealing with youngsters.

Don't be afraid of enemies who attack you. Be afraid of the friends who flatter you.

It is better to fall in with crows than with flatterers; for in the one case you are devoured when dead, in the other case while alive.

Do you take me for a sponge, my lord? hamlet: Ay, sir; that soaks up the king's countenance, his rewards, his authorities. But such officers do the king best service in the end: he keeps them, like an ape, in the corner of his jaw; first mouthed, to be last swallowed: when he needs what you have gleaned, it is but squeezing you, and, sponge, you shall be dry again. rosencrantz: I understand you not, my lord. hamlet: I am glad of it: a knavish speech sleeps in a foolish ear.

You can always spot the employee playing golf with his boss. He's the fellow who makes a hole in one and says, "oops!"

The fawning courtier and the surly squire often mean the same thing,--each his own interest.

Flattery is an ensnaring quality, and leaves a very dangerous impression. It swells a man's imagination, entertains his vanity, and drives him to a doting upon his own person.

We admire people who work hard, who are objective and thorough. We detest office politicians, toadies, bullies, and pompous asses. We abhor ruthlessness. The way up our ladder is open to everybody. In promoting people to top jobs, we are influenced as much by their character as anything else.

O villains, vipers, dogs, easily won to fawn on any man!

A small politician, of low capacity and mean surroundings, proud to act as the servile tool of men worse than himself but also stronger and abler.

Complimenting someone in an exaggerated way is known as flattery, and flattery will generally get you anything you want.

The politics of courtiers resemble their shadows; they cringe and turn with the sun of the day.

Flattery is telling the other person precisely what he thinks about himself.

We should always speak what would please the man of whom we expect a favour,like the hunter who sings sweetly when he desires to shoot a deer.

Did a sense of shame ever reside in our Republican toadies? You can't stop people who are never embarrassed by themselves. Will's readiness to turn a sow's ear into a silk purse can be cited as world class sycophancy.

I think 'fan' implies somebody who's submissive, sycophantic, in awe of everything you're doing.

A man who flatters a woman hopes either to find her a fool or to make her one.