Quotes About Ingratiation

The only person who ever called me Paul was my father, so I always associate it with doing something wrong, you know. So, you know, occasionally, people will come up to me on the street and try to, you know, ingratiate themselves and call me Paul. I don't like it, actually.

Bootlickers rise easily and rapidly through the ladder in the corporate world.

Sycophants, therefore, can dance attendance on the Many as easily and as mischievously as on the One.

No; let the candied tongue lick absurd pomp,And crook the pregnant hinges of the kneeWhere thrift may follow fawning.

the higher one rises in an organization, the more likely it is that people will tell you you're right. People will agree with powerful leaders as a strategy of ingratiation, as nothing is as flattering as others' telling you how right and how smart you are.

Under the garb of networking, most are doing bootlicking through liking the post of wealthy people on social media.

A big day for the bootlickers to please the boss by going around to bow to him and shamelessly have a ball.

I am very good at groveling.

Sycophancy can be seen by blinds and heard by deafs

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

Of course you like him; everyone enjoys flattery.

You've got to kiss arse to get somewhere, to learn. Clock-watchers are no good at kissing arse.

One might say that romance with revolution died with Solzhenitsyn. The line from Bastille to the gulag is not straight, but the connection is unmistakable. Modern totalitarianism has its roots in 1789. 'The spirit of the French Revolution has always been present in the social life of our country,' said Gorbachev during his visit to France last week. Few attempts at ingratiation have been more true or more damning.

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

They're going to come in here and blow smoke up your ass,' the coach was saying. 'They're going to give you blow jobs , tell you how great you are, they're going to pile it on thick…