Top 10 Sycophants Quotes

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

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

Richard Steele

Men, Fool, Sycophants

Richard Steele, Joseph Addison (1794). “The Guardian”, p.99

A director must be a policeman, a midwife, a psychoanalyst, a sycophant and a bastard.

Billy Wilder

Film Directing, Sycophants, Directors

Journalists were never intended to be the cheerleaders of a society, the conductors of applause, the sycophants. Tragically, that is their assigned role in authoritarian societies, but not here - not yet.

Chet Huntley

Sycophants, Roles, Cheerleader

SYCOPHANT- One who approaches Greatness on his belly so that he may not be commanded to turn and be kicked. He is sometimes an editor.

Ambrose Bierce

Greatness, Editors, Sycophants

Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.220, University of Georgia Press

Sir, I am no sycophant or worshipper of power anywhere.

Benjamin F. Wade

Power, Sycophants, Worshippers

It is possible to be below flattery as well as above it. One who trusts nobody will not trust sycophants. One who does not value real glory will not value its counterfeit.

Thomas B. Macaulay

Real, Sycophants, Doe

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.

Rollo May

Sycophants, Status Quo, Dissent

Rollo May (1994). “The Courage to Create”, p.34, W. W. Norton & Company

Yoko had 10 years and I had 10 years and I would rather have had the 10 years I had than the ones she did. I had the raw talent and the raw human being, before the sycophants arrived.

Cynthia Lennon

Years, Sycophants, Raw Talent

It really isn't anybody's business how many people we have working for us. What's offensive is that I'm portrayed as this prima donna with these sycophants telling me how great I am all the time. Yes, they do work for me, but we're working together for a higher good.

Demi Moore

People, Working Together, Sycophants