Sycophants Quotes

“Someone who smiles too much with you can sometime frown too much with you at your back.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson

“Buy a gift for a dog, and you'll be amazed at the way it will dance and swerve its tail, but if don't have anything to offer to it, it won't even recognize your arrival; such are the attributes of fake friends.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson

“Having a relationship with people of questionable character is like playing with a razor blade on your skin, and pretending to observe that it is harmful to your body.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson

“When things are like hunky dory, every enemy comes in the name of friend, but when things are twisted like turmoil, every friendly enemy shows you their colour.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson

“Nothing can save you from hate, empty all your treasures and give it to people and one out of the multitudes will curse you, so live your life to please yourself and not others.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson

“Moreover, I have heard that those who are fond of praising men to their faces are also fond of damning them behind their backs.”
― Zhuangzi, The Complete Works of Chuang Tzu

“The number of your antagonists are far more greater than that of your companions, so you have to keep a stone of awareness to mark the boundary line.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson

“The trouble with competitors' sycophants is they don't know where to put their tongues. Here's a suggestion: Try behind your teeth. With your mouth shut.”
― Max Hawthorne, Kronos Rising

“When you favour a woman, she will want to return the favour in so many means, but its better to rupidiate such offerings.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson

“History is replete with blunders written by sycophants.”
― Tomichan Matheikal

“There are two types of people that surround celebrities: sycophants and spongers. There was no place for a real person around Imran.”
― Reham Khan, Reham Khan

“One honest friend is worth more than a million sycophants.”
― Kevin Ansbro

“Pardon me for budging into concoction of the aristocrats blowing their trumpets, the demagogues' doctrines, the antagonists' squeals, the hypocrites' assertions, the sycophants fawning adoration, the facebookers' slants, the youthful sneers, the pragmatic notions n of course some acquiescent aspirants....this facebook page is so bombarded by myriad posts....maddening to read n like all.....so here's wishing each one of the revered contestants all the best.....may the deserving win.....”
― Mukesh Kwatra

“There is so little backbone within the Republican Party that I think they should just take the next logical step and join Cirque du Soleil.”
― Thor Benson

“The heroes of humanitarian action are applauded: a good thing they're there to rescue our honour! If you denounce this shroud-waving, again there is applause: thank goodness you're there to say these things! It is often the same people who applaud. Sycophants, catechumens, proselytes, acolytes - to arms, all of you!”
― Jean Baudrillard, Cool Memories IV, 1995-2000

“Whole nations are transported, exterminated, their name to be forgotten, except in the annual festival of their conquerors, when sycophants call the names of the vanquished countries to the remembrance of the victors.”
― Zora Neale Hurston, Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo"

“....the truth is no road to fortune, and the populace doesn’t give out ambassadorships, university chairs, or pensions.”
― Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract.

“Treat loyal people right; else you will be surrounded by sycophants.”
― John Joclebs Bassey, Night of a Thousand Thoughts

“Stories abound... of governments' heavy reliance on focus groups and other forms of research to pre-test the likely political effect of policies. Not to test the integrity or efficacy of the polices; not to see whether it fits within a particular philosophical framework, merely to test its palatability or, to be brutally frank, its likely contribution to a government's prospects of re-election.”
― Hugh Mackay, The Kindness Revolution: How we can restore hope, rebuild trust and inspire optimism

“The Janus Symbiosis by Stewart Stafford

Ambition's fruition never matches,
The reach of the expanding ego,
Then its imperious Siamese twin,
Savagely seeks sanguine satiation.

Who shall be the meat for the feast?
What shall the slaughter method be?
A blood sport for the VIP Narcissus,
Spitting bones through a rictus grin.

Sycophants surround the Janus figure,
Wheat and chaff to the scythe's blade,
Starving out any vestiges of moral fibre,
Lumps on the humps of the all-powerful.

© Stewart Stafford, 2022. All rights reserved”
― Stewart Stafford