Quotes About Sycophancy

Independence is person-specific: I have always been taken aback at the high number of people in whom an astonishingly high income led to additional sycophancy as they became more dependent on their clients and employers and more addicted to making even more money.)

The rich man despises those who flatter him too much, and hates those who do not flatter him at all.

Of course you like him; everyone enjoys flattery.

Flattery isn't the highest compliment – parasitism is.

Ah, furchte fruchte, timid Danaides! Ena milo melomon, frai is frau and swee is too, swee is two when swoo is free, ana mala woe is we! A pair of sycopanties with amygdaleine eyes, one old obster lumpky pumpkin and three meddlars on their slies.

You can only suck up to a very finite number of people. A couple of slurps, and you're done.

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

My students," a business school professor confides, understand "organizational life as a kind of 'vanity fair,' in which those who want to get ahead can do so by playing to the vanity of their superiors." One plays this game, his students know, by using outright flattery and adulation. Enough sycophancy, they believe, will lead to promotions. If in the process they have to withhold, downplay, or distort important information, so be it.

La flatterie n'émane jamais des grandes âmes, elle est l'apanage des petits esprits qui réussissent à se rapetisser encore pour mieux entrer dans la sphère vitale de la personne autour de laquelle ils gravitent. La flatterie sous-entend un intérêt. (p.239/317)

La flatterie n'émane jamais des grandes âmes, elle est l'apanage des petits esprits qui réussissent à se rapetisser encore pour mieux entrer dans la sphère vitale de la personne autour de laquelle ils gravitent. La flatterie sous-entend un intérêt.

Definitions from Mulla Do-Piaza Supporter: Someone who will say anything.

Rahul Gandhi himself doesn't have any vision or the political acumen to be able to differentiate between sycophancy and sincere advice.

Los viles aduladores que se arrastran en las cortes sobre la alfombra de los poderosos pueden, al principio

Employees hate meetings because they reveal that self-promotion, sycophancy, dissimulation and constantly talking nonsense in a loud confident voice are more impressive than merely being good at the job - and it is depressing to lack these skills but even more depressing to discover one's self using them.

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…

One unadvertised hazard in the life of a plutocrat is that the people around you can be prone to yes-man sycophancy.