Mark Latham Quotes

Whenever he met a great man he groveled before him, and my-lorded him as only a freeborn Briton can do.

I think he [President Jimmy Carter]'s around too many people that kiss his ass all the time.

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.

I have watched people around members of the royal family for a long time now, and something very strange happens to them. They turn into sycophants.

I am not an easel-kisser.

Nothing is more despicable than to reach fame by crawling, position by cringing.

Everyone likes flattery; and when you come to Royalty you should lay it on with a trowel.

Kiss my ass!

I can’t afford to have my Vice President who knows every reporter in town, go around saying we’re all screwed up, so we’re going to keep him happy. You are dealing with a very insecure, sensitive man with a huge ego. I want you to literally kiss his ass from one end of Washington to the other.

What a bastard!

I can't sing and I can't dance, but I can lick any S.O.B. in the house.

People in power, they're so used to people kind of playing up to them.

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

The world of this is a load of crap. You get all these bloody people, so incredibly sycophantic.

The king appeared... with his dogs and sycophants behind him.

Swine!

... a lying son of a bitch.

... condescending SOBs

that slab-faced bastard.

You damned infernal old scoundrel.

Gutless chickenshit!!!

Scum!

Mongolian Savages

You can pander, but you've got to do it in a way that doesn't seem like pandering.

The journalists are so devoted to Obama. They are such sycophants that they're worried about access.