Quotes About Sycophancy

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

Stop working hard, start licking the boots of bosses. It is a way of rising through the posts in the private company.

A flatterer has water in one hand and fire in the other.

European civil society and NGOs that petition for favours and influence for their special interests are often themselves funded from E.U. coffers. This creates a system of patronage that encourages self-reinforcing group-think and a cloying sycophancy.

Well, I suppose you know that men will stand a good deal when they are flattered.

Commend a fool for his wit, or a rogue for his honesty and he will receive you into his favour.

He was new to the sycophancy and cowardice of men; their inability to think alone appalled him as much as did their need to get together and reassure themselves with windy words.

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

Sycophancy toward those who hold power is a fact in every regime, and especially in a democracy, where, unlike tyranny, there is an accepted principle of legitimacy that breaks the inner will to resist.... Flattery of the people and incapacity to resist public opinion are the democratic vices, particularly among writers, artists, journalists and anyone else who is dependent on an audience.

Sycophancy toward those who hold power is a fact in every regime, and especially in a democracy, where, unlike tyranny, there is an accepted principle of legitimacy that breaks the inner will to resist.

A politician normally flatters you in your face and criticises you behind your back.

The more powerful you become, the less likely it is that people will tell you the truth. It must be why the 'Harry Potter' books become so bloated as the series progresses; think of the beautiful, precise editing of books 1-3 drowned in a mire of sycophancy and yea-saying.

They had to serve their masters, but if they seemed to fawn, if they curried favor too obviously, the other courtiers around them would notice and would act against them.

Engaging in a sycophantic way with any politician in the short term is tempting. It offers the lure of access and the promise of influence. But ultimately, it can lead to misreading the environment, giving too much of an ear to the politician's circle, and confining your audience to partisans.

more to curry favor than to educate.

You seem artful at those pretences, Which flatter common folk and princes.

A foolish person who has selfish intent towards the people can't have brilliant quality content in own thoughts; however that individual does not understand that any attempt to paint oneself as an intellectual or a saint/wise by rhyming and priming quote with nice words may only get a lot of support of sycophants, but s/he gets exposed to the intelligent in an era of internet.

A nation or an organization ruled by crafty & crooks can neither support nor appreciate truly learned ones who are wisdom books, but promote mostly stupids & sycophants who can lick the senior-most people's boots

A person in any walk of life is brilliant only if s/he is being admired by intelligent not sycophants or stupids.

A person who has attained popularity not in reality,but superficially built it merely through media blitz or mass publicity is praised by only those people who have either stupidity deeply rooted in their life or are involved heavily into the activity of sycophancy and hypocrisy.

A person who has attained wealth/high position in an organization/a nation via sycophancy/bootlicking/dirty politics game will never neither care for name/fame nor ever feel shame no matter how much people abuse/criticize/blame him/her and going to remain self-obsessed/worthless/shameless as always.

A person who is an indolent or a peasant can never lead the intelligent or smart people, but only sows seed of sycophancy weed within the organization to merely feed on own materialistic need and fulfill the greed of a few others at the topmost position and everyone can read clearly that s/he does never heed of the good deed of sincere and hard workers.

A very rarely someone genuinely hits Likes or puts comment on a netizen's content, most lend it with a mere selfish intent to take out profit/ benefit from the host's pant. Beware of boot-lickers/traitors/sycophants who are often seen giving support to the social media post of rich people especially politicians and businessmen

Academic literacy & meritocracy are tertiary; competency & work efficacy are secondary; primary traits required usually are sycophancy & skulduggery/hypocrisy for an employee to rise through the ranks in the private sector corporate hierarchy.