George R. R. Martin Quotes

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.

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.

Arselicker!

Criticks are like brushers of Noblemens cloaths.

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

Flattery labors under the odious charge of servility.

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

Commend a fool for his wit, or a rogue for his honesty and he will receive you into his favor.

Knavery and flattery are blood relations.

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

One may define flattery as a base companionship which is most advantageous to the flatterer.

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

It's the nature of Hollywood that there are the people in power and the people who tell them what they want them to hear.

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.

Obsequiousness begets friends, truth hatred.

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

All flatterers are mercenary, and all low-minded men are flatterers.

Flattery was formerly a vice; it has now become the fashion.

No adulation; 'tis the death of virtue; Who flatters, is of all mankind the lowest Save he who courts the flattery.

The dog is a yes-animal. Very popular with people who can't afford a yes man.

Would you be in any way offended if I said that you seem to me to be in every way the visible personification of absolute perfection?

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.

Compliments and flattery oftenest excite my contempt by the pretension they imply; for who is he that assumes to flatter me? To compliment often implies an assumption of superiority in the complimenter. It is, in fact, a subtle detraction.