Quotes About Sycophants

I have a running daydream about winning an Oscar and giving my speech about how ridiculous it is to rank art. And then I'd call them all sycophants and leave the statue at the podium as I walked away.

Since a president can easily slide into a comfort zone of sycophants, it can't hurt him to see a few demonstrators with rude T-shirts injecting a small dose of irreverence into a triumphant appearance. In the age of stage-managed events for television, however, White House aides don't like it.

Whenever you commend, add a compelling reason for doing so; it is this which distinguishes the approbation of a man of sense from the flattery of sycophants and the admiration of fools.

Dictators have no peers; only sycophants to do their bidding. That is how it was in Nazi Germany. And so it is wherever autocrats rule in government or in business. Dictators and braggarts cause their own demise, because when they finally are in extremis, they have only their lackeys to call on, while their adversaries attract the best of men.

In religion, it is not the sycophants or those who cling most faithfully to the status quo who are ultimately praised. It is the insurgents.

It might seem that being a genius is a golden ticket to a life of glamorous soirees with the intellectual elite, champagne flute in hand, arm candy at your side, surrounded by a throng of smiling sycophants. But you might be confusing this scene with the lifestyle of a diplomat

Being surrounded by toadies does not mean you are respected; it means you are the head toad.

Schmoozers are brownnosers, sycophants more suited to middle management than to the Wild West of the entrepreneurial world.

A foolish person pleases oneself with the support extended or praise offered by the people who are either sycophants or stupids.

A person who loves to have sycophants people around oneself is one who is worse than them only.

A self-seeker gets support on own social media post from stupids and sycophants only and these LIKE votes are many and often on his/her selfie or photograph mainly.

An unintelligent or fool always enjoys having around oneself the presence of a lot of sycophants who only admire his/her stupid talks or external looks with their hidden, selfish intent.

Corporate meeting is largely for appreciating the sycophants, scolding the diligent employees, eating, chatting for whiling away time & then dispersing but not before finalizing the next date of meeting.

More often than not, the sycophants easily get high incentive with promotion whereas an intelligent or truly deserving person is given merely five to ten preaching reasons by the top brass as why he could not get any salary hike & next upper position in the private sector organization.

Sycophants are invisible God's sent poisonous serpents tucked inside the pants of every person who has selfish/devilish intent towards cheating/fooling people

Sycophants are like serpents because a person who keeps them is definitely bitten by them one day.

Sycophants are like termites that eat from inside even a tree bearing fruits & flowers and they are often in the guise of supporters and followers only.

Sycophants or bootlickers have different approach towards various economic class host on social media. They often instant like & pleasant comment in support of the post of a very rich person even if that is written with evil intent or is absurd/irrelevant, but if the message placement is excellent or significant with high degree of truth element from ordinary individual, they outrightly ignore that very content.

The private company's profit goes for a toss to make the business loss primarily because of the sycophants who are parasitic employees hired and nurtured by the boss.

The reality is that there is no classification of leadership and nothing as such good or bad leader. A person is either a leader or a pretender. A pretender is seen often surrounded with many people-all stupid and sycophants.

The sycophants get regularly the increment and promotion whereas the talent gets usually the penalty and punishment in the private organization especially in Large or Medium Corporation.

There is no bigger punishment to a person than to be an intelligent in an environment of an organisation or a nation where most people are only sycophants.

When a self-indulgent is enjoying own life like anything by flying, going places & splurging, her/his sycophants' project this picture as if s/he is working round the clock & the stupid easily believe it.

12 Excitement of the hunt! It's an astonishing phrase. Coerced by fear for her life, then seduced by power. Is it possible that one thing we can learn from Ans van Dijk is that totalitarian regimes achieve their power not just through repression but through the seduction of insiderism, which turns people into craven sycophants?